Reconciliation at work: four Catholic churches burned to ground in BC near reserves
(www.castanet.net)
FN
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (60)
sorted by:
Most of the deaths were due to disease. It's not the Europeans' fault that the people in pre-Columbian North America didn't have chickens and other farm animals.
Are you thinking of the diseases brought by Europeans that wiped out 90% of the indigenous populations?
That's different from the deaths at the residential schools, which were largely the result of poor nutrition and healthcare.
Yes, I am speaking about the cumulative effect of two population groups mixing.
This would have been inevitable regardless of which civilization would have colonized North America first.
Of course, people are not explained this in detail, and the obfuscation is purposeful and meant to imply that it was done with mens rea, which it was not.
No doubt. But in this particular case, as explained in my other comment, unlike many if not most mixing of cultures the First Nations of Canada have the law on their side, and Canada claims to be a nation of "Peace, Order, and Good Government", so the issues are very much alive.