On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Scott Loveless <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/19/10, John Sessoms <[email protected]> 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. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
