paul stenquist wrote:
On Feb 19, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Scott Loveless <sdlovel...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 2/19/10, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
From: Scott Loveless
Or that Canada had any less culpability for their treatment of
indigenous peoples prior to the 21st century.
Well, in defense of past Canadians, while not innocent, they weren't
nearly as brutal as past Americans.
-- Scott Loveless
And yet, Canada (unlike the US) committed functional genocide against a
native tribe, the Beothuk in Newfoundland and Labrador. Ironically, it
was as much the Micmac and Inuit's fault as European settlers as the
former groups drove the Beothuk out of a fair bit of their settled land.
Overall Canada was a lot nicer to its native population than the US, but
that's different from saying we were nice.
Of course it's important to note that by the time the US became a nation,
France, Spain and England had already done a lot to turn the native
population against colonists. By 1776, nearly three hundred years of bad
relations had set the stage for the future.
Paul
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