This was printed in 2015 btw. Apparently it's popular among homeschoolers.
Another passage says "The First Nations peoples moved to areas called reserves, where they could live undisturbed by the hustle and bustle of the settlers."
Edit: they might have fixed it due to backlash?
The publisher, Popular Book Company Canada, released a statement on social media saying they were issuing an immediate recall of the books. They vowed to engage First Nations communities “to assist us in understanding how best to write about this part of Canada’s history so that our materials are accurate.” They also said they would be implementing a more thorough review process to ensure accuracy of published material.
assist us in understanding how best to write about this part of Canada’s history
Hey so here's an idea
Maybe if you don't already know that
Then you shouldn't be
WRITING A FUCKING BOOK ABOUT IT
But at least they're called First Nations instead of Indians :doomer:
"Native American" is a really broad category that lumps Inuits and Cherokee and Mayans and Bolivians all together. The tribe nearest me prefers "Indians" because it's more specific.
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.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.
“Agreed to move” like how when I squat in the persons house who wrote this book and they agreed to move because I said it’s my house now
Agreed to move into the afterlife
The same way that the person you shoot makes an agreement with the bullet that they were shot
I agreed to make a financial donation to the guy pointing a gun at me.
:agony-immense: this is definitely the worst one ive seen, holy shit. most at least make token mentions about a conflict.
American textbooks in the future: Natives welcomed Europeans with open arms because there was so much land to give, helped build their immunity to foreign diseases thanks to them, and in return got to build cool casinos. Those lucky natives now have their own reservations and also black ppl came later. And they all lived happily ever after. :)
Hot take: the stereotype of the pleasant apologetic Canadian is a way for settlers to cope with the semi-unconscious understanding that their entire country and way of life is built upon enslavement and genocide.
Is that why Americans are known for being pleasant and apologetic too?
i'm gonna say the canadian school system does a better job than this textbook, but yeah that's pretty much the state of our education
