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First Nations & Their Slaves
Corrective History Double Standards First Nations Indigenous Politically Corrective History Slavery Woke Hypocrisy
Mark Milke describes Indigenous slave-holding in the Pacific Northwest and the largely Christian-driven movement for abolition -- even as the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria, B.C. moves to "decolonize" exhibits in the name of "reconciliation." Slavery in the Pacific Northwest IN THE LUSH rainforests of the upper and isolated inlets and interior of the Pacific Northwest and Canada’s West Coast, the moral stain common to the rest of humanity – Slavery – was also present. “Slavery was a permanent status in all Northwest Coast societies,” wrote anthropologist Leland Donald in his 1997 book, Aboriginal Slavery on the Northwest Coast of...
The Myth Behind “Rhodes Must Fall”
Biography Cancel Culture Cecil Rhodes Colonial Era Corrective History Double Standards Education History Wars Men and Ideas Oxford University Statue-Toppling Woke Hypocrisy
By Marie Kawthar Daouda
NELSON MANDELA himself urged against cancelling memorials to Imperialist figures. Besides, it is condescending and very white-centered to think that Africa’s problematic past only revolves around European imperialism.
The Imbecile Attack on Egerton Ryerson
Biography Canada Colonial Era Corrective History Double Standards Education Egerton Ryerson First Nations Indian Residential Schools Patrice Dutil Ronald Stagg Woke Hypocrisy
It is wrong to blame Egerton Ryerson for creating residential schools and too often ignored that Indigenous people themselves wanted government-funded schools. It was Chief Peter Jones, working with other prominent Methodists, who argued that the government should fund schools to educate Indigenous men ....
Keep the 'British' in British Columbia
British Columbia C.P. Champion Canada Cancel Culture Chris Champion Colonial Era Contentions Corrective History Double Standards First Nations History Debates History Wars Indigenous Men and Ideas Statue-Toppling
By C.P. Champion THE HAIDA at the height of their power were the terror of the West Coast, seizing booty of all kinds in seaborne raids: goods, captive labour, trophy-women and -children—and bearing aloft severed heads and limbs. Their own oral history records disturbingly recurrent scenes in which they “destroyed the people, burned their town completely” and “took them also for slaves.” But in 1862 the Haida were nearly wiped out by smallpox, which arrived by ship with gold diggers from San Francisco. Few would be so churlish as to judge the Haida of today on the basis of their marauding...
From Katyn to Kamloops
British Columbia C.P. Champion Catholic Church Chris Champion Colonial Era Corrective History Double Standards Education First Nations History Debates History Wars Indian Residential Schools Indigenous Kamloops Woke Hypocrisy
Mass unmarked graves have evil connotations especially in the 20th century. But there is a vast gulf between Kamloops and Katyn, or Babi Yar — writes C.P. Champion