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Injustices to Indigenous People in Canada, unnamed, image, image, image -…

- - - - When De Champlain arrived in Canada, he and his men travelled with the Wendat First Nations. He travelled with them because the Wendat knew the land, and he didn't want want them to form an alliance with the Haudenosaunee People. Although there were tensions between the Wendat and the Haudenosaunee, he believed that if they teamed up and turned on De Champlain and his men, New France would've been forced to retreat back to France.
        
        Once De Champlain gained the Wendat's trust, he brought in Jesuits, clerics from the Catholic church, to force the Catholic religion onto the Wendat people. De Champlain then started to make trading conditions which required that trades with the Wendat would only occur if the Jesuits were allowed to preach to the Wendat.
        
        De Champlain then lied to the Wendat, saying that all new diseases that couldn't be cured with the First Nations' natural medicines could only be cured by adopting the Catholic religion. The Wendat believed that adopting the Catholic religion would heal them, but it didn't. As a result, the Wendat population was unfortunately halved by the number of casualties from the diseases and the Jesuits and De Champlain maintained an air of superiority.
        
        De Champlain and his men brought new diseases to the land that couldn't be cured by the Indigenous Peoples' natural medicine.
- - - - The goal of these schools was for First Nations children to assimilate into white Canada while oppressing their culture, trying to "force the Indian out of them".
        
        At these residential schools, the children were abused, beaten, raped, starved, and even murdered. The residential school system ruined lives and I can't believe that some residential schools were still operating in 1996!
    - - Duncan Campbell Scott, Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs, stated, "Indian children in the residential schools die at a much higher rate than in their villages. But this doesn't justify a change in the policy of this department, which is geared towards a final solution of our 'Indian Problem'".
- - - - First Nations culture and history is passed down orally and, with smallpox wiping out entire nations of Indigenous People, many cultures and languages were lost. To First Nations people, losing their elders to disease was like losing entire libraries.
        
        Thousands of First Nations lives were lost in both the residential school system and with the widespread diseases that European settlers brought to Canada.