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Injustice to Indigenous Peoples (statues (Samuel de Champlain (When…
Injustice to Indigenous Peoples
statues
John A. MacDonald
Seen as a reminder to the natives of Canada.
It reminds them of the horrible past their ancestors had to deal with
Even though John A. is seen as the founding father of Canada he was still a major racist
John A. was the main architect for the residential school.
He established the North West Mounted Police
The NWMP was used to patrol the residential school and prevent native children from leaving and returning home.
Samuel de Champlain
His statue had a kneeling indigenous person in front of Champlain.
When Champlain came to Canada be brought along diseases.
The diseases that he brought over killed 50% of the aboriginals.
Champlain brought over religion.
These religious people made it so any native that wanted to trade with new France had to allow them (the religious people) into their villages to preach to them.
These religious people were able to get followers by lying to the natives.
The religious people said that all of the diseases that have suddenly shown up and could not be cured by their traditional medicines or elders could only be cured was to adopt their religion.
The famous 5
Even though the famous 5 did a lot for women's rights in Canada the famous 5 were focusing specifically on the rights of white women.
2 of the women in the famous 5 encouraged eugenicists. they also helped pass the Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta.
Residential schools
The residential schools were horrible
The people who worked at the residential schools would take children away from their parent and keep them there until they were 16.
The staff at these schools would beat the children if they spoke in their native tongue. this caused children to forget how to speak in their native tongue and when they went home they could not connect with their family because the didn't speak the same language.
The children that were taken to these school were not allowed to leave the school grounds.
Children were often taken advantage of i these schools.
Hudson Bay Company (HBC)
The HBC calmed a huge portion of land. They did this without the natives consent or knowledge.
In this area HBC had the exclusive trading rights.
This meant that the natives relied on HBC heavily to trade in their furs to get supplies, money and food.
They were also able to set the prices. They usual charged a lot for a little amount of supplies.
The HBC charged so much that 3/4 of native families made less than 2000$ a year and 1/3 of Indian families are totally dependent on well-fair.
This is still a problem today.
The HBC workers often asked double of what the company said the prices were to get more money for themselves.
The HBC sold the land to the Canadian government without the native permission or knowledge.
Blankets.
An English general came up with a plan to get rid of the natives. His plan was to give blankets to the native that were previously used by people that had died for smallpox or tuberculosis
His plan worked very well and very quickly.
by giving a native a blanket that had smallpox in 3 week 80% of his or her community would die from the disease.