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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Canada has an awful history of mistreatment of the Native Peoples in our country, everything from residential schools to racism to underfunding of reservations. We are finally making amends and our Prime Minister gave all of the Native Peoples of Canada a formal apology this year. Now we just have to keep putting our money where out mouths are.
Surfpirate
Level 9
May 17, 2018
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Well Done,
We must learn from our history and make recompense for the wrongs of our ancestors. The Natives did not deserve to suffer because of our forefather's greed. The politicians see them as a burden on our resources when they themselves forced a self-sufficient people into a state of perpetual poverty. We as the new Americans should stand up and allow the Natives to be what they wish themselves to be. Give them their pride back.
Gohan
Level 7
May 17, 2018
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Well Said.
The usual methods of dehumanizing the enemy/victims were employed extensively, you still hear the casual justification for this genocide centuries later. A crime against humanity that is covered over in our history books where it is said that the native peoples moved west to make room for the new European settlers when in fact they moved 6 feet down. 
Surfpirate
Level 9
May 17, 2018
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Yes it's a tragic part of the past. Unfortunately it happened to the Australian Aboriginals too; who were declared a dying race by Cook and Co. who then did their best to, 'make it so'. It was, and is, terrible, but I think the best case scenario is to move on together. I'm sure it will never be forgotten, but hopefully those wronged will heal to the extent that they can accept that the newer generations were not the perpetrators of these hate crimes and accept us as part of humanity.
girlwithsmiles
Level 8
May 17, 2018
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P.S. read about the Trail of Tears in my teens
P.P.S. am I the only white person that experiences deep grief about these stories?
@girlwithsmiles I agree with you. I feel deeply sad and ashamed of the actions of many of my ancestors. Grief is not enough, though. I think we have to work to prevent such things happening, which means getting involved in politics and pressure group activities.
well said
@CeliaVL yes, obviously anyone who is aware should be trying to move things in the, 'right direction' and work towards unity and improvement. I've been demonstrating on and off since the early '90s towards these ends, plus confronting people in my daily life, when appropriate. [en.wikipedia.org]
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Although Bouquet and Amherst clearly intended to try and spread smallpox among Native Americans, there is no evidence that their attempt worked. The Native Americans in both north and south America were being killed in their thousands by diseases brought in unknowingly by the European settlers in any case.
CeliaVL
Level 7
May 17, 2018
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Also by the u.s. Calvary who were distributing infected blankets among the tribes.
@girlwithsmiles I understand, 100.000.000 was the estimated death toll of the North American tribes.Disease from Europe was a minor factor in their demise.South America was much worse.
@Coldo very sad. I had a friend from South America tell me that they wish it was England not Spain that overrun them as she felt they got a worse deal with Spain...amazing stuff. Genocide is genocide however you look at it though
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