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Injustices Brought Upon The Indigenous Peoples of Canada, Others say it…

- - - - Beaver pelts were a valuable commodity, and the demand for them were high. So the Indians needed to keep up with this demand to put food on their table.
        
        • Often the Indians were given very low value for their beaver pelts, only to double the prices of the goods being sold back to Indian members.
        
        Due to the high demand and value of the beaver pelts, the beavers were nearly drove to extinction.
  - - - • Various treaties were signed over a period of time. These treaties were written in English which made it difficult for the Indians to understand. They signed over their rights to the land without really knowing what was happening.
- - - - He was responsible for the creation of Canada.
  - - - Louis Riel came back to help fight with the First Nations peoples for their land before the railway could be built over it, but instead were faced by MacDonald’s army of 8000 to fight the Metis people. Riel lost this battle and surrendered to MacDonald. John A. MacDonald had him hung for his support of the indigenous people-.
- - - - These schools were only exclusive to Indigenous children.
        
        The aim of residential schools was to do away with the tribal system, and to assimilate the Indian people in all respects.
      - Due to the harsh conditions and diseases, more than 41,000 children died at the residential schools.
        
        The percentage of suicides in the Indigenous community falls mainly from the residential school survivors.
        
        In June 2021, the government of Canada passed bill C5. Making September 30th a federal statutory day known as ‘National Day for Truth and Reconciliation’
    - - Another objective of the government was to continue until there was not a single Indian left in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic, and there is no Indian Question, and no Indian Department.
        
        As quoted Nicholas Flood Davin “Indian culture is a contradiction in terms… they are uncivilized… the aim of education is to destroy the Indian.”
      - In 1847, Egerton Ryerson said that “Their education must consist not merely training of the mind, but of a weaning from the habits and feelings of their ancestors, and the acquirements of the language, art and customs of civilized life.”
- - - - There seemed to be cruel irony in there being a statue of John A. MacDonald in the area where he had Louis Riel hung for his part in supporting the First Nations people.
      - Louis Riel was a Canadian politician who led two resistance movements against the government of Canada, as well as Prime Minister John A. MacDonald by fighting for the rights of Metis people. There was widespread anxiety regarding land claims across Canada, and the changing economy. Riel fought hard, but lost the battle against the government.
  - - - -He forced the Wyandot tribes to follow the preaching of the Jesuit ministers
        
        The only way the First Nations could trade was to follow the preaching’s of the Jesuit leaders.
        
        He forced the Wyandot tribes to follow the religion of the Jesuit leaders, the Jesuit ministers were successful in indoctrinating the first nations by convincing them that the newly found diseases could not be cured by their own methods but could be successful with the help from the Jesuits only. This was a lie. By the end the First Nation population was cut in half.
  - - - These women were Emily Murphy, Irene Parlby, Louise Mckinney, Henrietta Muir Edwards, and Nellie Mcclung.
        
        Emily Murphy introduced the idea of Eugenics, which is a practice of controlled selective breeding of the human population by use of mass sterilization in order to “improve” the populations genetic composition. The sterilization was specifically targeted towards people with disabilities, mental illness, Indigenous, Chinese, or poor.
        
        Despite standing up for women’s rights, this was one sided and it only seemed to benefit the white women.
        
        -Irene Parlby was the first female president of the United Farm Women of Alberta.
        
        -Henrietta studied law, she advocated for children, and women in prisons.
        
        -Louise Mckinney was the first woman to be elected to legislate in 1917.
        
        -Nellie Mcclung advocated viciously for women in many areas.
        
        -Emily Murphy published the book known as ‘The Black Candle’ which was about the perils of drugs.