To the editor,
Based on the history of colonization in the americas starting with it's discovery by Columbus in 1492 onward, i think the four western provinces should separate from Canada----& be returned to their rightful owners, the indigenous peoples (what's left of them) who lived on these lands because they took better care of them for thousands of years before our dominant European culture imperially took them away in a genocidal fashion.
During the battle of 1812 our aboriginal ancestors actually helped us fend off the united states & it's 'manifest destiny' from taking the whole of Canada as we know it & how do we repay them? apparently by appropriating their lands, exploiting their resources for ourselves & suppressing their indigenous culture.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's recent statement of apology, primarily for the removal of native children by the Canadian state into residential schools, does not cut it. It's still politically correct to pretend 'those other things' never happened, & while not a mainstream subject i find the brutal extermination of north America's indians to be disturbing.
Colonel John M. Chivington while instructing his troops at Sank Creek, Colorado said it best, 'Kill & scalp all, little & big... Nits make lice.' which as history shows seems to be the overall tone of how policy was aimed from 1492 until now.
So yes I reaffirm the four western provinces of canada, at the very least, be returned to their rightful owners---the indigenous people of north america. This land mass might perhaps serve as a bastion for all wayward North American indians currently still living an isolating & segregated existence imposed upon them by forces no different than those very same forces which oppressed Jews under a Nazi state several decades ago.
During the battle of 1812 our aboriginal ancestors actually helped us fend off the united states & it's 'manifest destiny' from taking the whole of Canada as we know it & how do we repay them? apparently by appropriating their lands, exploiting their resources for ourselves & suppressing their indigenous culture.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's recent statement of apology, primarily for the removal of native children by the Canadian state into residential schools, does not cut it. It's still politically correct to pretend 'those other things' never happened, & while not a mainstream subject i find the brutal extermination of north America's indians to be disturbing.
Colonel John M. Chivington while instructing his troops at Sank Creek, Colorado said it best, 'Kill & scalp all, little & big... Nits make lice.' which as history shows seems to be the overall tone of how policy was aimed from 1492 until now.
So yes I reaffirm the four western provinces of canada, at the very least, be returned to their rightful owners---the indigenous people of north america. This land mass might perhaps serve as a bastion for all wayward North American indians currently still living an isolating & segregated existence imposed upon them by forces no different than those very same forces which oppressed Jews under a Nazi state several decades ago.