Nationally Reconciling the Truth

Torture, Sacrifice, and Cannibalism

Introduction

During our annual Not One Body Found season, I thought I’d discuss the truth about the brutal violence and savagery of North America’s most early, prominent and influential indigenous tribes, and popular narratives surrounding them.

If you’re an ethnic Canadian, born in the 1990s, you’re no doubt familiar with the education system’s attempts to subject you to a program of Maoist-style struggle sessions over the alleged genocide of the indigenous peoples in Canada. These struggle sessions in classrooms and collective humiliation rituals serve multiple purposes. One is to de-legitimize the history of, and perpetuate the ongoing deconstruction of Canada. The other is to de-legitimize the existence of the Canadian people as a nation (defined as a group sharing ethnic, cultural, and historical ties), in preparation for demographic replacement via mass migration.

The average Canadian’s school experience is filled with a turbo-charged version of liberal Noble Savage mythology, which is still propagated by leftists and indigenous activists. This has given the impression to many of the indigenous tribes as a singular race, continent-wide, uniformly peace-loving, non-binary, nature-appreciating matriarchal egalitarians until the evil, white, patriarchal Christian man arrived.

This resembles equally revisionist history about the Indo-European invasions into Europe around 4000 B.C. against the Pre-Indo-Europeans. You know that story: patriarchal brutes from the Eurasian steppes, with their advanced bronze weaponry and horse-powered chariots, wiped out the longhouse-dwelling, peace-loving, egalitarian agricultural Early European Farmers, who were feminist. This theory, conceived by Maria Gimbutas, a feminist intellectual, was debunked and discarded years ago. In reality, the Early-European-Farmers were extraordinarily warlike, violent, engaged in child murder or sacrifice and were apparently innovative as they built monuments like Stonehenge. This is much the same for indigenous in North America. All of this is framed in a Marxist oppressor-oppressed paradigm.

Tales of cruel treatment, deliberate biological warfare via smallpox blankets (of which there is only one known reference, with attempts to implement unknown), or extermination by colonial death squads haunts the minds of Canadians, planting the seeds of self-doubt and masochism. If you listen carefully to the rhetoric of leftists and indigenous activists, you’d be led to believe there was an industrial mass-slaughter of tribes, with conveyor belts funneling indigenous people into machines that spit out moccasins and dream catchers. The depopulation of indigenous tribes was not the result of deliberate action but rather Europeans being far more numerous and carrying diseases to which they had no immunity. The second cause was perpetual, brutal warfare by the survivors against each other. The mass depopulation from epidemic disease in North America occurred in the mid-1600s, after epidemic breakouts in the filthy, cramped conditions of Europe. Not almost a hundred years later in 1763, where smallpox blankets are merely discussed by General Jeffrey Amherst and Colonel Henry Bouquet.

Indigenous activists believe they were subject to a holocaust-style genocide. It is not a coincidence that the amplifying of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation occurs at the same time as the Managerial Regime in Canada has declared itself a "post-national state." (which the indigenous also live in and suffer consequences from),. They believe Canada is a country without a people. Ironically this lines up with activists' own definition of "cultural genocide", because in 1867 during Confederation Year, according to census data, Canada was 92% Anglo-French, 7% miscellaneous Europeans, and the remaining 1% indigenous. Canada is unquestionably, unmistakably, a European construct of Anglo-French extraction.

In 2021, seemingly out of nowhere, the public was subjected to the establishment of this astroturfed federal holiday, which was made statutory—still only for employees of the federal government (what a coincidence!)—as of March 2023. Participation in this public humiliation ritual involves the coerced wearing of orange, and sometimes red, shirts. Canadians across the political spectrum knowingly or unknowingly participate in this ritual, with many rough, cowboy-hat-wearing, lifted-big-black-truck-driving conservatives, as well as tattooed, soy-eating, vegan ketamine enthusiast quartz-worshiping leftists also enthusiastically partaking.

It's called being a decent human being, Chud! Schools, the monopolized legacy media, corporations, and brands all recognize and partake in the humiliation ritual, directed exclusively at ethnic Canadians. Football games have their players sing the national anthem, and every clinically obese, corn-syrup-slurping sportsball fan claps as the announcer humiliates and shames him or her with a land acknowledgement to prove to the crowd and community that they "don’t see race”. Medical professionals and university faculty across the country also include land acknowledgements in professional email signatures. Even law enforcement gleefully participate in the the ritual, dancing like circus monkeys to the tune of people who despise them.

Publicly released internal correspondence of an RCMP constable's email featuring a land acknowledgement

If you’re lucky like me, you might personally witness an all-black Caribbean football team take a knee (after a land acknowledgement, of course) in an additional devotional rite to Black Lives Matter... since Caribbeans were enslaved by settlers in Canada…or something (?), even though most of them emigrated on worker programs in the 1980s, are not descendants of slaves… and the British Empire outlawed slavery in 1834...or something. Who knows. There are Africans in Ireland right now accusing the Irish, who suffered two genocide attempts of their own, forced into rebranded slavery (indebted servitude), and had no empire of their own, of being evil white colonial oppressors. Nobody escapes the struggle sessions, because this is about power.

(A land acknowledgement is a formal statement "recognizing" and "respecting" the "traditional" indigenous territories on which an event, gathering, or institution is situated. This serves the implicit dual purpose of downplaying and de-legitimizing the deep roots of Canada's foundations and existence. Most indigenous people today do not live on the territories they historically inhabited, and have not lived on them for centuries, with many deliberately choosing to uproot and relocate.)

As of September 2024, nearly one-quarter of the Canadian workforce is employed by the government, which includes law enforcement, medical professionals, and e-mail job civil servant bureaucrats. I guess they’d better partake, as these new 'loyalists' are bribed by the managerial elite with comfortable six-figure salaries, generous pensions (which they hope to fund by importing the detritus of the third world), prioritized access to family doctors, and extensively covered dental care. This comes at a time when the average Canadian has a median income of $48,000 CAD ($35,000 USD), the average home costs $700,000, and they pay obscene taxes for little to no healthcare.

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was officially established in response to the discovery of supposed unmarked graves at former residential school sites, with the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, in particular, receiving international attention. A moral hysteria ensued upon the discovery, with the Managerial Regime in Canada immediately taking the opportunity to browbeat ethnic Canadians into apologetic public self-flagellation. I'm old enough to remember when it broke the news that liberal Britons were willingly putting themselves in chains, wearing shirts that said 'so sorry,' in LARP slavery tours so they could "experience what it was like to be a slave”, and it reminds me of that.

The reality is that indigenous grievance politics, and the residential school legacy has become a significant enterprise, the Heyahoyacaust industry. The Canadian government has allocated substantial "funding" to indigenous groups to support the search for unmarked graves and "address the impacts of the residential school system." This includes $116.8 million for the implementation of several "Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action," as well as an additional $321 million announced in 2021 to "assist with searches, healing initiatives, and community memorials”. Part of this "funding" also goes toward creating a national monument in Ottawa to "honour survivors and the children affected by residential schools." We currently four months away from 2025, and this monument is still in the planning stage. Despite all of this, to this day not a single body or legitimate unmarked grave has been found on the former grounds of this residential school, or indeed many others, as is now widely recognized by Canadian media, anthropologists, and archaeologists. Attempts to excavate, provide conclusive evidence of the allegations, and get to the bottom of it once and for all have been consistently stymied by demands for "cultural sensitivity" towards indigenous burial practices.

The "trauma" and "grief" are also apparently too overwhelming to confirm or deny the objective truth. If the willingness of indigenous communities were there to conclusively find out exactly what happened, they would be clothes-lined by chiefs and other decision-makers, because excavations are only undertaken with the consent of the affected communities. How convenient.

The guilt and masochism is so prominent, that Canadians and Americans alike, despite 90% not having indigenous ancestry on average, will claim they're "1/16th Cherokee" or some other tribe located nowhere near where they actually live. Over one hundred historic Canadian churches were burnt to the ground in country-wide arson over Kamloops, and not a single person has been charged for desecrating these sites. I'm not even a Christian and it's profoundly disgusting to me.

Let’s dispel some of the myths about the indigenous.

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Tribes of the Eastern Woodlands

Map of indigenous tribal groups in North America

Have you spent an inordinate amount of time looking at maps, imagining all the peoples and "factions" of coloured areas? Do you enjoy unnecessarily complicated grand strategy games? Me too. Please be patient, I have autism. We will focus on the area highlighted in green. In order to deconstruct this narrative of Canadian mythology—which implies widely believed garbage about the indigenous tribes that they were an egalitarian, racially monolithic, ethnic, and cultural group who "formed a country" that Europeans "emigrated" to, then "took over" and "stole," while immigrants are "just as Canadian" despite "living on stolen land")—we must identify the main juggernaut ethnolinguistic group in the East. This group are the Iroquoian indigenous. They were present and reasonably populated during European arrival. This groups and its enemies were ancient, visceral enemies, with a rivalry dating back an unknown number of centuries. We’ll begin with a primer on their origins.

The Iroquois

Flag of the Iroquois Confederacy

There is a difference between "Iroquois" and the "Iroquoian language." The map you see below is the original territory of the Iroquois. When historians speak of the Iroquois, they are referring to the Iroquois Confederacy. They aren't the only ones to speak an Iroquoian language, but they were by far the most important of them, the most numerous, and imperialist. The Iroquois are held in high regard by the managerial regime in Canada because, on more than one occasion, they have utilized violence in recent years against what is framed as uniquely evil white settler colonialism, rooted in Marxist anti-colonial nationalism, despite their long history of subjugation, assimilation, and genocide of other indigenous peoples. Additionally, they were a matrilineal society, where lineage passes through the mother rather than the father. Jewish people are also matrillinial, tracing lineage through the mother's line even in ultra-orthodox or conservative denominations. Matrilineal doesn't mean matriarchal.

Original territory of the Iroquois Confederacy

This has led to a schizophrenic revisionist narrative depicting them as feminist, or egalitarian while simultaneously badass conquerors.

The five tribes of the Iroquois were

• Seneca, (Western NY)

• Mohawk, (Eastern NY)

• Onondaga, (Central NY)

• Oneida

• Cayuga

The earliest known recollection of Iroquoian unification, like that of many nations, starts with a founding myth. According to their oral tradition, the violence between the five "nations" prompted a man named Deganawida (the Great Peacemaker) a man named Hiawatha, and Jigonhsasee, the "Mother of Nations", to propose the Great Law of Peace. The importance of Jigonhsasee's role in unification is difficult to ascertain, because anthropologists in recent decades have attempted to play up her contribution and directly refer to her home as "a sort of United Nations", to grant legitimacy to the idea that multiculturalism is ancient. This theme runs directly in line with Post-WWII Consensus liberalism of Francis Fukuyama. Indigenous activists like to invoke the United Nations and international law quite a bit, as if it were a legislative or governing body with real power and not originally an appendage of the American Empire. It is certainly aspirational to liberal democracies, the fated Star Trek victory of Earth's unification under liberal, capitalist, egalitarian universal democracy. Anyway, the Great Law of Peace brought the tribes together into a single political and military unit, ending the preceding bloodshed between them, and directing it outwards instead.

Categorizing the five tribes as wholly distinct or as "nations" is disingenuous—they were ethnically and culturally identical, though each had their own dialect of the same language, lived in different regions, and had specific roles within the Confederacy. This is roughly the same as England or Germany before these countries unified. Most of them originate in what is now New York. This unification is believed to have occurred sometime between the mid-1400s and early 1500s. The Seneca and Mohawk were the first and second most powerful of those tribes. Today, the flag of the Mohawk Warrior Society has become the unofficial symbol of a racial pan-indigenous movement, and racial pan-indigenous identity. You will see this flag flown at protests across North America, carried by random indigenous tribes who had no contact with the Iroquois or ironically fought against them. I've noticed at worst, outright lying and at best confusion in unrelated indigenous groups across Canada mistakenly claiming beliefs, narratives or accounts of Iroquois culture as their own.

Flag of the Mohawk Warrior Society

Pre-Contact Conflict

What's fascinating about these tribes is that they appeared to be in the intermediary period of an agricultural revolution when Europeans arrived, like the Neolithic period (stone-age), in the Fertile Crescent. Hunting, fishing, and gathering were still sources of food, but to their credit, they successfully experimented with rudimentary agriculture, although they never developed knowledge of crop rotation. This agriculture was not efficiently sustainable, despite the whimsical claims of harmony with nature often made by leftists and activists. Agriculture was also, solely the domain of women, who were the primary farmers in Iroquois society. The Iroquois deified these crops—corn, squash, and beans—as the "Three Sisters." This agricultural development allowed them to remain sedentary and build an advantage of manpower against neighbouring groups, who mostly remained nomadic hunter-gatherers. The Seneca derived their name from "Great Hill People," and the Mohawk from "People of the Flint," likely owing to their usage of flint weaponry. The Mohicans in New England, an Algonquian enemy tribe, referred to them as the "Great Bear People," and the entire Iroquois Confederacy as "Big Snakes."

Like other Neolithic societies, conflicts involving the Iroquois Confederacy and others were characterized by small-scale warfare, ceremonial raids, and revenge-driven skirmishes. Warfare was motivated by blood feuds, typically localized disputes between families or clans rather than total war. The need to avenge the death of a family member was seen as a moral obligation, prompting families to initiate raids or attacks against rival groups to "balance the scales." These feuds were often resolved through homicide compensation or the capture of enemy combatants, who would be "adopted" (forcibly assimilated at the risk of torture and execution). This limited form of warfare was customary, as debts were expected to be paid in full, and greater casualties meant greater retribution.

According to Jeffrey P. Blick in The Iroquois Practice of Genocidal Warfare (1534–1787):

An increase in the human torture-sacrifice-cannibalism complex also occurs beginning in the Owasco (circa 1000-1300 and continues into the contact period

Deep into the pre-contact period, as far back as the Middle Ages, these practices were commonplace. Warfare had strong ritualistic elements, and battles were often formalized, involving displays of strength and taunts between combatants. Warriors would sometimes line up on opposite sides, insult each other, and shoot arrows, often resulting in few casualties. Other practices included mutually agreed-upon weapon restrictions and rest periods. These ceremonial battles were meant to demonstrate power and assert dominance while minimizing losses and avoiding the destruction of villages. This restrained form of conflict, despite the cannibalism, torture and human sacrifice (which I will explore later), reflected a broader emphasis on maintaining a balance of power rather than complete domination or annihilation of enemies. However, this would later evolve into a policy of total destruction.

The Iroquois practice of head-taking and the display of enemy skulls further demonstrates the symbolic nature of pre-contact warfare. The taking of heads served as a form of psychological domination, intimidation, and demoralization of rival groups. Decapitated heads were often displayed on poles above Iroquois palisades or war chiefs' homes. Blick goes on to reference Abler and Logan, stating:

Abler and Logan have claimed that competition over deer was one reason for increasing hostilities. It is often the case that, as societies become sedentary, the defense of horticulturally and agriculturally productive land becomes more common as territorialism increases.

As the Iroquois and other neighboring tribes became more sedentary and reliant on agriculture, the defense of fertile lands became increasingly important. In addition to agricultural resources, hunting grounds, particularly for deer, were highly prized, However, these conflicts rarely escalated into the kinds of genocidal warfare seen by Iroquois in the contact period. It seems that throughout the period of 1000-1300, substantial fortifications were built on hills, with sizes of longhouses increasing to record levels. Blick hypothesizes the Iroquois' preexisting traditions predisposed them to waging war on out-groups once they unified, because their infighting was so brutal.

The First Known Genocide

Among the first known probable victims of Iroquois conquest were the lost St. Lawrence Iroquois—a group of Iroquois to the north, where Montreal is today, who were not part of the Confederacy, and recognized as not being Huron, another Iroquois tribe who were not party of the Confederacy. This independent group was present when Jacques Cartier explored the region in 1535, but by the time Samuel de Champlain arrived to continue Cartier's exploration 75 years later, they had completely disappeared. Presumably wiped out or assimilated. Proof of this is in the fact archeologists have discovered remains of their villages encircled by earthworks and palisades, indicating a need for defense.

The Mohawk component of the Confederacy specifically, are suspected to have wiped them out because the they wanted more control of the St. Lawrence trade routes connecting with Europeans. On top of that, the neighbouring Algonquin were not strong enough to dislodge them. Champlain himself reports the rival Algonquin were afraid of the Iroquois and avoided open combat with them. By 1580 the Confederacy were using the St. Lawrence as a hunting ground and avenue for war parties.