- 29 Aug 2017 22:24
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An incorrect one, yes,
So, when he sent in the army to kill people, that was what? A pleasant invitation to join Canada?
Here is the link yet again:
http://activehistory.ca/2015/01/john-a- ... exclusion/
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in...
Buzz62 wrote:It's an observation.
An incorrect one, yes,
I disagree...in the strongest of terms.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/0 ... union.html
HE considers “genocide of a people.”. Not me, not my Mom because I asked her, not allot o' people.
You can't just decide what is "genocide" and what isn't. To me, "genocide" means the killing of a people...PHYSICALLY! Not this...soft porn genocide you like to howl about.
Assimilation is not "genocide". It's actually the reasonable and rational thing to do...if you actually WANT to participate and be successful in a given society. You know...like you've done.
So, when he sent in the army to kill people, that was what? A pleasant invitation to join Canada?
- During the early 1880s, knowing of the dependence of the plains people on the Buffalo, whose migration had ended in 1879, Macdonald used a policy of deliberate starvation to force chiefs such as Big Bear to take treaty, while also imposing bureaucratic surveillance and control over the lives of treaty peoples through the Indian Act. In 1885, he completed the conquest of the plains through military force again the Métis and Plains Cree (remember that most of the military action was conducted by Colonel Otter again the plains Crees) and following the surrender of the plains peoples engaged in extra legal acts to ensure that those involved in the resistance would never challenge state control again. Macdonald declared twenty-seven bands to be in insurrection even though he knew that few First Nations were involved in the resistance. Innocent chiefs were arrested and imprisoned, while Aboriginal murderers were publicly executed at Battleford in contravention of the law of the time. The now conquered people were forcibly confined on reserves and were subject to an extralegal system of pass laws which prohibited them from leaving without a written pass from the Indian Agent. He then denied rations to the people trapped on reserve, resulting in a government-organized famine. As James Dascuk shows in his recent award-winning book, Clearing the Plains, these were deliberate acts of genocide organized by Macdonald so as to empty the plains to make them available for European resettlement.[12] Finally, as Superintendent General of Indian Affairs, Macdonald was even responsible for establishing the system of Indian Industrial Schools (i.e. residential schools) that were designed to disrupt the transmission of traditional culture while imbuing the supposed habits of European civilization in the rising generation.
Here is the link yet again:
http://activehistory.ca/2015/01/john-a- ... exclusion/
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in...