Have the Indigenous Indians been Mis-Treated?
However, let’s try to put this in perspective.
In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s the death rate for all children was high.
In fact, the infant mortality rate in Canada, for children under the age of one year old, was 187 deaths per 1000 births.
In the early 1900’s for Ages 5-15 the Death Rate for all Canadians was about 10 per 1000 population or for 10,000,000 people, that would be about 100,000 deaths per year.
That’s right 100,000 Deaths per year. Where are their burial plots and head stone markers?
Why is the Indigenous Children Deaths and Burial Sites of any more Significance than Anyone Else’s? Where is the Politicians and Media’s Balanced Reporting?
Life Expectancy was under 60 years of age back then.
The biggest killer in 1900 was pneumonia and influenza. There were other killer diseases lurking: smallpox, typhus, cholera, yellow fever, and tuberculosis. TB by itself was widespread in children. Those children that contracted tuberculosis had a very low survival rate.
Back in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s everyone had a challenge.
My father in the 1920’s was sent away to school at Horton Academy, 100 miles from home, with no real roads, transportation or telecommunications.
He was alone. His Father said he needed to learn how to Read and Write. He survived, and graduated. Others said, why does he need to Read, get to Work!!
Even in my day, I can recall, one teacher, 48 students in 8 grades in a one room school and we survived and got an education.
My Grandmother got TB and was sent to a Sanitorium where she died in the 1930’s leaving 3 daughters for their father to raise. The daughters never got to visit their mother as they were all afraid of catching TB. To my knowledge there is no burial plot or headstone.
Fact is, there was little means to communicate to home or any where’s else, and everyone was afraid of catching a disease as there was little chance of a cure. Where else could you bury anyone, but close to where they died?
It was not until the 1950’s that one could live at home and go to school. Everyone in the early 1900’s went away to school, and I mean everyone, not just Indigenous people, that is, if you wanted an education.
The Indigenous people are not being as hard down
by as the media indicate; in fact, they were offered
the chance to get an education, which was paid
for by Taxpayers.
It is also wrong to blame Egerton Ryerson for creating residential schools. It was Peter Jones, working with another prominent Methodist, who argued that the government should fund schools to educate Indigenous men in the new techniques in agriculture, so that they might survive in a colony where land to hunt and fish freely was rapidly disappearing.
In 1846 government agents met with 30 chiefs representing most of the First Nations in what is now southern Ontario. After some discussion, almost all of the leaders agreed that such schools were necessary. A year later, the Government approached Ryerson, an acknowledged expert in education, and asked him to provide a curriculum for schools that would train Indigenous people for a settled life.
And we allow the Ryerson Statue to be torn down by idiots who want to use today’s standards against the standards of an earlier time.
This Statue was paid for and approved for erection back then, how can the police let vandalism like this take place without arresting the culprits?
Where is our leadership, to stand against this atrocity, Trudeau, Ford, the Police Chief and Mayor Tory? Losers all!!!
We need to preserve our history, McDonald, Queen Victoria and others, so we learn from the past. It appears our education system has deteriorated, as the idiots have not learned history in a meaningful way.
Further, The Calgary Sun’s research indicates from 1946 to 2018 the Canadian Government spent $3.3 Trillion $3,300,000,000,000. on Indian Affairs with no Return on the Investment.
The 2020/2021 Federal Budget calls for spending $4,700,000,000 on Indigenous people in 25 different categories.
However, that is not the end of it! Total spending will be $6,873,000,000. Indigenous Services Canada: 2018 to 2019 Departmental Results Report (sac-isc.gc.ca)
And with all this money they still can’t drill wells or locate to higher ground, or build and maintain suitable homes.
The Indigenous Indians are milking Canadian Taxpayers
for all they are worth. The majority of Reserve Indians
don’t pay taxes, they blockade rail-lines, and pipelines,
and remember
Caledonia?
Policing operations incurred more than $30 million in costs!!!
What about the “Millions of Illegal Cigarettes” they sell, paying no taxes!
Remember, the late Six Nations “Billionaire” Cigarette Magnate Ken Hill?
And Premier Ford gives the Indigenous Community another $10 million, to explore the grave yards. Any concerned person knows where those burial sites are already.
What about the rest of us, or the taxpayer for that matter? I need funds to find my grandmother’s grave.
Rail Line Blockades both East and West
has cost millions of dollars in lost productivity,
while we pay the Indigenous People to protest!
There are approximately 1,700,000 Indigenous people in Canada and 57% of Indigenous Indians live “off” the Reserve today,
probably descendants of their educated grand-parents,
who have decided they want a better life.
I suggest a few of our generation need to speak to our Grand-parents and truly study some history.
I am a Steeves descendent of 7 Brothers that arrived from Germany in the 1700’s. They survived and now there a more than a quarter million descendants, contributing to society.
In comparison, we have pandered to the Indigenous people taking away their Dignity and Pride and making them dependent on the Canadian Taxpayer. Enough! Get rid of the Indian Act!!
We needed leaders like Ryerson and John A McDonald or nothing would have gotten done. Think of what they had to endure with little education, equipment, and no cell phones or communication equipment?
They built Canada and developed an Education System, and built a National Railway. Will our current leaders deserve a statue?
Now we have the Truth and Reconciliation Report, which cost more than $72,000,000.
This has nothing to do with Reconciliation it has to do with Canadians being held Hostage by the Indigenous Indians and as long as we pay, they will continue to Demand and Beat their Drums.
Why wouldn’t they? We cover all their expenses to do so. They hold us hostage!!
Who else can afford to stand around blockades for days,
Taxpayers sure can’t, we have to work to earn a living besides funding the Indigenous Blockades!!!!!!
Trudeau’s request that the Pope should apologize
for Deaths at the Residential Schools should be totally ignored.
It is time to Negotiate by Withholding the Funds Allocated
to Indigenous people, bring them to the Table and Integrate Them into Society. If They want to Preserve their Culture and Beat
their Drums, then do it on Their Dime, not the Canadian Taxpayer’s Dime!!
As far as the land is concerned, everyone, including the Indians came here from some place else, eventually it got Deeded and Property Ownership evolved.
Politicians are all too willing to accept blame for the indigenous Indians Condition. If Indigenous People wish to live on a Reserve to preserve their language and culture, fine, but hunting and fishing are a sport today, not a living.
They will find the world has passed them-by.
Is that Canadians Responsibility? I Think Not! Nor should Canadians Pay for their Lifestyle!!
