As a Canadian with a PhD in history who has taught Canadian history for many years, thank you for writing this. Though I have great respect for many aspects of Native American cultures, far too few know about the actual bloody history of war (of often genocidal nature), kidnapping, torture and cannibalism between different groups, particularly of the Iroquois Confederation in the 17th century. I’ll be saving and sharing this.
Magisterial writing. This should be sent to every educator and government bureaucrat in the country.
I have long thought that there is a direct relationship between the hysteria emanating from our managerial elite and efforts by the Native Grievance Industrial Complex to "decolonize" and gaslight this country as much as possible, in parallel with the legacy population decreasing literally by the month as millions of Indians keep pouring in. It's almost as if they know the clock is ticking, and that over time, their message will fall on deaf ears as the Justins and Caitlins of Canada are replaced by the Amarpreets and Gurjeets who aren't going to give a flying fuck about "white settlers" and ghost graves, and whose preoccupation of working as Tim Hortons slaves while living ten to a house in Brampton override everything else.
And so these Indigenous capos and their useful idiots in the state sector figure they better cash their chips as fast as they can. And the legacy of what was, for a time, a pretty damn good country becomes the very thing buried in the ground that they are seeking.
Very enlightening thank you Fortissax! I live in Australia where much the same struggle sessions and “welcome to country” pollute everyday life and sometimes even church. I only know superficially that colonists supposedly went systematically across the continent massacring the indigenous but haven’t really dug deep. I attended an online international medical conference where much of the content was proudly in the Māori language, leaving me flummoxed. What’s the point of a gathering if many people can’t understand what is being said? It’s purely performative, it’s divisive and I am absolutely done with it. Furthermore, I consider the “welcome” ceremonies anything but welcoming and also frank ancestor worship which is idolatry ⚔️
the same iroquois who contributed to the american constitution, lol. i admire a lot aboit the native cultures and the treatment of the plains indians by drunks and psychopaths like Grant and Sherman are shameful. but they were also some mean mofos.
It's an incredible blindspot in popular understanding of Canadian history.
Where I live, the popular understanding of the tribes we mention in the land acknowledgements (the Blackfoot) would be that they have been here for thousands of years. In truth, they maybe settled here in the 1600s, or after the first European settlement in Quebec. They were forced out their traditional lands by the aggression of the Iroquois, and beat Europeans to the Great Plains by a few hundred years at most.
Never once growing up or studying history in University did I learn this aspect of Canadian or Native history; it was only this past year that it came up in my own reading. It shatters the myth that has been told to acknowledge that the native peoples have been displacing, enslaving and genociding each other for thousands of years before Europeans arrived.
Not Canadian, but I recommend 'Empire of the Summer Moon', about the Comanche and their bloody rule of the plains... and their eventual pacification by the US Cavalry.
"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."
I was shocked and outraged when I learned the truth behind this story... and that was like 4 years ago! How has reality still not seeped into enough folks' minds?
The good news is that instances like these discredit the power structure. They might induce guilt or compliance in the short term but once people discover they've been lied to they leave the matrix... and they don't return.
You write alot like Adam Shoalts. He has a great book titled A HISTORY OF CANADA IN TEN MAPS. He doenst water down history either. Well done. Great read. Thank you so much for your work that is very much so needed at this time.
It’s times like this when I am grateful that the US school system is so fractured. I never had to worry about struggle sessions of land acknowledgements. I know some parts of the US have the same practices, but I can successfully avoid them.
Thank you for publishing this. I’ve always been interested in the initial North American Indian conflicts. I recall my H.S. ROTC instructor touching upon some of this (more as an example of small unit tactics/ guerrilla warfare. Vietnam was still ongoing).
great piece. the early history of Canada has always interested me and if you study the Jesuit missions, you will learn much that’s surprising about the ferocity of the native tribes. parkman’s volume still holds up, imo. Black Robe by Brian Moore (and the film) are good too.
A very Explicit historical recollection that describes the raw details of what will be the saddest reality of human existence. The unnecessary primitive problematic system itself.
Maybe there's still time to start something different by simply refusing to comply with such madness. It's a formula being used throughout history. Advanced through so-called technologies but it is primitive at the core as depicted from the reference back to the Stonehenge civilization.
But yeah, we'd think that it's nuts to actually know that nothing has changed regarding the matter of history repeating. Yet, the only actual advancements have been the expansion of Imperialism itself.
Additionally, it seems logical to believe that the actual perpetrators of the entire world use the indigenous And the assimilated to carry out the master plans for complete world dominance.
As a Canadian with a PhD in history who has taught Canadian history for many years, thank you for writing this. Though I have great respect for many aspects of Native American cultures, far too few know about the actual bloody history of war (of often genocidal nature), kidnapping, torture and cannibalism between different groups, particularly of the Iroquois Confederation in the 17th century. I’ll be saving and sharing this.
Magisterial writing. This should be sent to every educator and government bureaucrat in the country.
I have long thought that there is a direct relationship between the hysteria emanating from our managerial elite and efforts by the Native Grievance Industrial Complex to "decolonize" and gaslight this country as much as possible, in parallel with the legacy population decreasing literally by the month as millions of Indians keep pouring in. It's almost as if they know the clock is ticking, and that over time, their message will fall on deaf ears as the Justins and Caitlins of Canada are replaced by the Amarpreets and Gurjeets who aren't going to give a flying fuck about "white settlers" and ghost graves, and whose preoccupation of working as Tim Hortons slaves while living ten to a house in Brampton override everything else.
And so these Indigenous capos and their useful idiots in the state sector figure they better cash their chips as fast as they can. And the legacy of what was, for a time, a pretty damn good country becomes the very thing buried in the ground that they are seeking.
Very enlightening thank you Fortissax! I live in Australia where much the same struggle sessions and “welcome to country” pollute everyday life and sometimes even church. I only know superficially that colonists supposedly went systematically across the continent massacring the indigenous but haven’t really dug deep. I attended an online international medical conference where much of the content was proudly in the Māori language, leaving me flummoxed. What’s the point of a gathering if many people can’t understand what is being said? It’s purely performative, it’s divisive and I am absolutely done with it. Furthermore, I consider the “welcome” ceremonies anything but welcoming and also frank ancestor worship which is idolatry ⚔️
Thanks for raising awareness about cannibalism, torture, and human sacrifice among northern tribes like the Iroquois.
These details of precolumbian morality often only focus on the Aztec and the Maya.
the same iroquois who contributed to the american constitution, lol. i admire a lot aboit the native cultures and the treatment of the plains indians by drunks and psychopaths like Grant and Sherman are shameful. but they were also some mean mofos.
It's an incredible blindspot in popular understanding of Canadian history.
Where I live, the popular understanding of the tribes we mention in the land acknowledgements (the Blackfoot) would be that they have been here for thousands of years. In truth, they maybe settled here in the 1600s, or after the first European settlement in Quebec. They were forced out their traditional lands by the aggression of the Iroquois, and beat Europeans to the Great Plains by a few hundred years at most.
Never once growing up or studying history in University did I learn this aspect of Canadian or Native history; it was only this past year that it came up in my own reading. It shatters the myth that has been told to acknowledge that the native peoples have been displacing, enslaving and genociding each other for thousands of years before Europeans arrived.
A solid gold Banger! Knew some of the basics but thanks for diving in to the records and providing the detail.
Not Canadian, but I recommend 'Empire of the Summer Moon', about the Comanche and their bloody rule of the plains... and their eventual pacification by the US Cavalry.
"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."
I was shocked and outraged when I learned the truth behind this story... and that was like 4 years ago! How has reality still not seeped into enough folks' minds?
The good news is that instances like these discredit the power structure. They might induce guilt or compliance in the short term but once people discover they've been lied to they leave the matrix... and they don't return.
You write alot like Adam Shoalts. He has a great book titled A HISTORY OF CANADA IN TEN MAPS. He doenst water down history either. Well done. Great read. Thank you so much for your work that is very much so needed at this time.
Looks like Canadian Managerial Elite is building an "ingroup" against the "outgroup".
It’s times like this when I am grateful that the US school system is so fractured. I never had to worry about struggle sessions of land acknowledgements. I know some parts of the US have the same practices, but I can successfully avoid them.
I sat through a land acknowledgment at my daughter’s school two weeks ago. This was a public elementary school in Seattle.
We all need to read this well written and annotated history.
Thank you for publishing this. I’ve always been interested in the initial North American Indian conflicts. I recall my H.S. ROTC instructor touching upon some of this (more as an example of small unit tactics/ guerrilla warfare. Vietnam was still ongoing).
great piece. the early history of Canada has always interested me and if you study the Jesuit missions, you will learn much that’s surprising about the ferocity of the native tribes. parkman’s volume still holds up, imo. Black Robe by Brian Moore (and the film) are good too.
Okay. But in the end, they lost big time, the British Empire took it all and Canada was born. Need to somehow deal with it realistically.
Messy history and all.
Yeah, and surely the same was happening in the USA. Same story but with a twist and America is just a loose end of the imperial agenda, most likely.
A very Explicit historical recollection that describes the raw details of what will be the saddest reality of human existence. The unnecessary primitive problematic system itself.
Maybe there's still time to start something different by simply refusing to comply with such madness. It's a formula being used throughout history. Advanced through so-called technologies but it is primitive at the core as depicted from the reference back to the Stonehenge civilization.
But yeah, we'd think that it's nuts to actually know that nothing has changed regarding the matter of history repeating. Yet, the only actual advancements have been the expansion of Imperialism itself.
Additionally, it seems logical to believe that the actual perpetrators of the entire world use the indigenous And the assimilated to carry out the master plans for complete world dominance.
Now what!?