This article is typical of the ill-informed, naive indoctrination that most Canadians are receiving in their schools. It substitutes ahistorical virtue-signaling for both common sense and historical fact, and does it via an unconscious do-gooder Racism that blindly accepts anything posited by an Aboriginal – no matter how unreasonable – and that’s unable to see Aboriginals as unique individuals.
The first is a modern development, while the second is a continuation of the same attitude the first Europeans had about Aboriginals – an attitude that resulted in the collective Segregation still evident today…
“A few years ago, I attended a feminist gathering in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The gathering was something of a watershed moment in my life up to that point and I treasure many experiences from it. The ones I hold dearest are those that sharply challenged my thinking, particularly my limited understanding of Aboriginal identities, experiences, and oppressions.
“At the beginning of the gathering, an organizer brought out a large canvas with an outline of Canada drawn on it, including rough provincial demarcations. She explained that the purpose of the canvas was to facilitate creative information sharing; attendees would be invited to write stories of community-based feminist actions on the canvas and indicate where they took place within Canada.
“Within Canada — as soon as the organizer uttered those words, a member of the audience sharply called out “Turtle Island!” and supportive applause followed her interjection.
“‘Turtle Island’ is what many {mainly Anishinaabe} Aboriginal peoples call North America. For that attendee to insist on naming the land on the canvas as part of ‘Turtle Island’, not just Canada, was important {and disrespectful, and racist} and more than mere semantics. Her action, and the support it received, made it tacitly clear that Aboriginal contexts, perspectives, and experiences would not be sidelined or silenced during this gathering.
{Racism is assuming that all members of a particular ‘racial group’ share the same values, “perspectives” and “experiences”. It doesn’t matter if it’s ‘well-intended’; it’s still Racism…}
“By the end of that first day, the canvas had begun to be filled by notes and drawings. Scrawled across the entire breadth of the drawing of Canada was the word UNCEDED, written in bold capital letters.
{An ahistorical lie. READ THE TREATIES:
https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1370373165583/1581292088522 }
“It was another action insisting that the ‘truths’ {?} of Aboriginal peoples be represented alongside more mainstream {realistic} ‘conceptions’ of Canada.
“The naming of Canada as part of a {fictitious} ‘Turtle Island’ and as land that had not been yielded by its traditional Aboriginal owners {But it was!} were simple, {foolish} yet radical, gestures. They challenged basic assumptions (like the assumption that Canada is simply and straightforwardly Canada, rather than something more complicated and problematic {? It’s reality!}) and erasure (like the belief that provinces are important borders to note, but traditional Aboriginal territory boundaries are not {They’re not – they no longer exist, if they ever did}). These actions challenged assumptions we were making in terms of whose history and identity the gathering would centre and give authority to.
{That was decided long ago. Get a grip…}
“I came away from my time at that gathering with a greater understanding of how to be an ‘ally’ to Aboriginal peoples in my ‘social justice’ {Communist} efforts, and with a more ‘complicated’ {unrealistic} understanding of Canada as a nation. The memory of responses to the map of Canada has remained particularly clear in my mind, as it represents the moment where I began to realize just how narrow — how ‘colonial’ {modern} — my thinking about Canada had been.
“The memory of the map always comes back with a vengeance around Canada Day.
“Canada Day is considered a celebration of Canada’s birthday, as the holiday takes place on July 1, the date in which three British colonies (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada) joined together to form a self-governing federation of provinces. We get a day off work to celebrate national history, identity and achievements. Pride in being Canadian is front and centre. This year was no different; on Monday, municipalities hosted their usual festivities and Facebook was a sea of Canadian flag profile pictures.
“However, since my experience in Winnipeg, I have to wonder: what does it mean for us to celebrate the date that three colonies joined as Canada’s birthday? What does it mean for our primary celebration of nation to revolve around but never name ‘colonialism’?
{Because ‘colonialism’ is simply a part of human social evolution. Even Aboriginals participated in it. How else did the Inuit come to populate the Canadian North?
‘The Genocide of the Dorset’
“The Thule (ancestors of today’s Inuit), originally from Siberia, were gradually expanding across the Arctic, displacing the older, aboriginal Dorset people. By roughly 1200 AD, the Dorset had vanished, killed off in warfare with the Thule… Inuit oral traditions tell of how the Dorset were a gentle people without bows and arrows, and thus easy to kill and drive away…”
https://endracebasedlaw.com/2019/08/05/the-genocide-of-the-dorset/ }
“Most importantly, I have to ask: what does it mean for Canadians to celebrate our nation in such a way when ‘colonialism’ is an ongoing oppression experienced by Aboriginal peoples?
{You can’t unwind social evolution. Why do you wish to keep Aboriginals living in the past? Even THEY don’t want it. They want – and deserve – all that ‘colonialism’ has to offer.}
“That’s the truth that isn’t discussed, or even acknowledged, often enough: ‘colonialism’ isn’t a historical event that Aboriginal peoples endured and survived, but an oppressive force that continues to this day {? Nonsense…}.
“Aboriginal men and women in New Brunswick were only enfranchised in 1963. The last of the residential schools closed in 1996 {and were mostly run by Aboriginals for the last 20 years because they wanted to keep them open} and Aboriginal communities are still coping with intergenerational trauma from that ‘horrific’ institution {that taught them to read & write}. In 2011, it was reported that there were more Aboriginal children in the care of government (via foster and group homes) than were ever in the residential school system. Aboriginal men and women are incarcerated at disproportionately high rates {Aboriginal culture generates criminality at a “disproportionately high” rate}. Aboriginal communities face consistent housing emergencies {mainly because of reserve Council corruption – another Aboriginal culture issue}. Over 600 Aboriginal women in Canada are missing or murdered…”
{‘Most Missing People in Canada Are NOT Aboriginal’:
“The overall number of {Canadian} persons who went missing increased by 8% in 2023, from 65,271 occurrences in 2022 to 70,168 in 2023.
“A total of 152 ‘Indigenous’ people remain missing.”
https://endracebasedlaw.ca/2024/10/10/most-missing-people-in-canada-are-not-aboriginal/
‘Stop Blaming ALL Canadians’:
“When aboriginal women are battered or murdered, the perpetrator is their male partner in the overwhelming majority of the cases. That partner is almost always aboriginal. Aboriginal women are also far more likely to be battered or murdered by their partners than are non-aboriginal women… Rather than concentrating on the massive problem of aboriginal male violence to women, aboriginal leaders insist on trying to focus on the tiny fraction of female victims of violence who are missing and may have been murdered by non-aboriginal men…”
https://endracebasedlaw.wordpress.com/2015/10/07/stop-blaming-all-canadians/ }
“Many will contest whether any of the above has to do with ‘colonialism’, particularly the rates of Aboriginal children in care, the representation of Aboriginal persons in the prison system and the missing and murdered Aboriginal women. The fact of the matter, however, is that these crises are directly related to and enabled by the continued marginalization of Aboriginal peoples within Canada. This marginalization is part and parcel of an ongoing process of ‘colonialism’. We’re still on the land {that WE own, bought & paid for}, controlling it with our rules, and Aboriginal peoples are still suffering because of it; that’s ‘colonialism’, folks.
{THAT’S simple-mindedness, folks…}
“Am I suggesting that we abandon Canada Day, if not Canada itself? No. “We’ve accepted that you’re not leaving”, quipped a young Aboriginal leader at the Winnipeg gathering, when asked by a non-Aboriginal woman about moving forward in light of Canada’s ‘colonialism’. Like the reaction to the map on the canvas, her answer stuck with me. We can’t undo the ‘colonization’ that occurred {!}, but we can ‘decolonize’ the state we find ourselves in now {?} — and this work of ‘decolonizing’ cannot be done solely by Aboriginal peoples. It’s in this spirit that I offer this simple gesture: a column asking non-Aboriginal folks to consider complicating their understanding of Canada and ‘colonialism’ {modernity}.”
{And we offer this simple gesture: We have over 1,000 posts for you to educate yourself – for the first time – on this subject:
–‘Canada and colonialism: a truth rarely discussed’,
Beth Lyons, NB Media Co-Op, July 5, 2013
https://nbmediacoop.org/2013/07/05/canada-and-colonialism-a-truth-rarely-discussed/
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“Minority activists manage to spit out ‘colonialism’ as a curse word with a terrible aftertaste. They live in a dream world where pre-colonialism, all creatures lived in harmony. They contend that colonialism was a harmful intrusion into a peaceful Eden. They are dead wrong.
“Before 1840, life was brief and brutal. People died from all manner of illnesses and injuries. Without drugs to treat infections, a deep cut, abscessed appendix or tooth would kill a person. From the 1500s until around 1800, life expectancy hovered between 30 and 40 years…
“The French and English who colonized northern North America were technologically advanced. They had ocean-going ships, carts with wheels, firearms to replace arrows and spears, and the ability to forge iron for tools and weapons. They understood using water wheels to drive grist mills and windmills to pump water. People adopted the technology.
“As our nation developed, so did our access to and creation of improved technology. In the century and a half since Confederation, our living standards and lifestyle have steadily improved. Minority groups have had the advantages of the improvements in living standards. By 2020, life expectancy had doubled to 82 Years.
…”
–‘Colonialism’,
JOHN FELDSTED
(John Feldsted is a political commentator, consultant & strategist. He makes his home in Winnipeg, Manitoba.)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/BCPoliticsAndMore/posts/963559200854465/
See also:
‘WHY END RACE BASED LAW?’:
“Canadians believe in equality, that all men and women have equal rights. We have determined that all shall be treated fairly and that no one shall be shut out of Canadian life, and especially that no one shall be shut out because of his, or her, race. Only a policy based on this belief can enable Canadians of Aboriginal heritage to realize their needs and aspirations.”
https://endracebasedlaw.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/why-end-race-based-law/
‘Deconstructing The Aboriginal Industry’ (Widdowson):
“The ‘Aboriginal Industry’ favours Segregation over Integration… The generally dysfunctional character of aboriginal community leadership and administration remains deeply entrenched because of the influence of an industry of lawyers, consultants and other professionals that benefit from the status quo of native dependency. These opportunists encourage a culture of opposition – to virtually any government attempt to improve aboriginal conditions – on the basis of entitlement for past injustices. They then, through their advocacy “research”, construct apologetics that justify aboriginal isolation and marginalization.”
https://endracebasedlaw.wordpress.com/2016/06/02/deconstructing-the-aboriginal-industry/
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