On Feb 19, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > 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. > > 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.
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