New book about the genocide right in our backyard. "How was the genocide carried out? Succinctly put, smallpox was deliberately seeded in First Nations throughout BC. Why? Because there were non-White people occupying land where valuable resources were located, where White people wanted to put roads through to get to valuable territory, where good land for agriculture was situated (never mind that it was already under cultivation by First Nations), because land, per se, is a valuable commodity, and racism: hatred of the different Other...“While elders across many native nations have always taught that these smallpox epidemics were genocide, Canadian historians instead have lent their own authority to Colonial propaganda created to mask the operation and provide deniability.” This suggests something about the wider society of non-Indigenous Canadians. It seems there are two choices: 1) Indigenous people are deluded or liars, or 2) they are telling the truth. If the Indigenous narrative is veracious, then it seems the historians have been either ignorant, biased, or complicit in a cover-up of genocide."
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:50:00 +0000