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Read this article. It is well written and while genocide deniers will find fault in it, that is them. Like the media of those days and today, they have a Narrative that they want to protect.
The Narrative of their exceptionalism. Fear is what drove them, it still does.
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The Narrative of their exceptionalism. Fear is what drove them, it still does.
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"...having a trio of all-encompassing negative qualities: depravity, innate inferiority and a stubborn resistance to progress."
This is what the media of the day said about indigenous People & the irony is not lost on me. The irony? Read on...
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This is what the media of the day said about indigenous People & the irony is not lost on me. The irony? Read on...
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The article points out how the media of the day fed the fears of the politicians who developed the Indian Act as it exists today. Largely unchanged.
Those finding fault with this are merely holding on to what they incorrectly believe is "truth/facts".
Right, the irony...
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Those finding fault with this are merely holding on to what they incorrectly believe is "truth/facts".
Right, the irony...
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