An elder from my part of the country said something to the effect of one night he fell asleep on our lands, but woke up the next day in Canada...
No treaty, no war, no abandoned lands, no sudden influx of settlers, nothing. Just... people said it was theirs, they were white, so other white people agreed with them and that was that.
I heard about the Wetsueten crisis and dug in a little bit and yeah the entirety of BC was essentially just annexed without actually making up a treaty. And the modern Canadian government headed black face wearing woke Trudeau is just as bad as the genocidal maniacs that were running the colonial Canadian project in the 1800s.
And the modern Canadian government headed black face wearing woke Trudeau is just as bad as the genocidal maniacs that were running the colonial Canadian project in the 1800s.
IDK know about all that. Like yeah, there is no massive upheaval of the colonial project and it keeps chugging along, but at least I'm in no danger of being forcibly relocated unlike just 2 generations ago, and Trudeau in particular knows quite a fair bit about my people and has been visiting the land since he was travelling with his father.
During one visit as a kid, my uncles played with him and made a cake for Canada day, as the Trudeaus were in town at that time.
But yeah, he doesn't want to end the colonialism, just make it nicer and more abstract with crocodile tears and performative wokeness. Still better than Macdonald, who would have likely tried to personally put a bullet in my head or something.
An elder from my part of the country said something to the effect of one night he fell asleep on our lands, but woke up the next day in Canada...
No treaty, no war, no abandoned lands, no sudden influx of settlers, nothing. Just... people said it was theirs, they were white, so other white people agreed with them and that was that.
I heard about the Wetsueten crisis and dug in a little bit and yeah the entirety of BC was essentially just annexed without actually making up a treaty. And the modern Canadian government headed
black face wearingwoke Trudeau is just as bad as the genocidal maniacs that were running the colonial Canadian project in the 1800s.IDK know about all that. Like yeah, there is no massive upheaval of the colonial project and it keeps chugging along, but at least I'm in no danger of being forcibly relocated unlike just 2 generations ago, and Trudeau in particular knows quite a fair bit about my people and has been visiting the land since he was travelling with his father.
During one visit as a kid, my uncles played with him and made a cake for Canada day, as the Trudeaus were in town at that time.
But yeah, he doesn't want to end the colonialism, just make it nicer and more abstract with crocodile tears and performative wokeness. Still better than Macdonald, who would have likely tried to personally put a bullet in my head or something.