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I realized society was against me at a very young age. Probably around five years old. I watched people treat my mother like dirt. We were out of food over the weekend and so had to go see the Indian agent on Monday to ask for some assistance. He made my mother wait for three hours before he finally gave her an order. When I saw him doing that to her, I said to myself, "When I grow up, no bastard like you is ever going to do that to me." That's been part of my life ever since.
When I started going to the Indian Day School on the reserve, we were taught that we came from an inferior civilization and culture and that we should strive to adopt white ways if we wanted to succeed in the world. So, the first time I ever came into contact with blatant racism, it was by a teacher - a Catholic nun, actually. The school was staffed by a religious order - the Sisters of Charity - and a priest was the principal.
It made me feel very inferior. When I was a child in the 1940s, we used to go down and watch cowboy and Indian movies, and of course we'd cheer on the "good guys" - the cowboys. That's what happens to you when you're taught that you come from savages.
But if you want to know about real savages, there is a man named John Martin Crawford who preyed upon First Nations women. What upset me terribly was that at the same time he was on trial for the murder of four Cree women, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka were on trial for murdering two white girls.
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By Goose Egg, March 15, 2007 at 18:48While complimenting the author for his effort in un-masking the false heroes of the White world, I must mention here about the pioneering book tiltled, "The Peoples History Of America" by Howard Zinn, which truly depicts the brutal betrayal and massacre of the native Indians in North America and the Carribeans by the white Europeans, primarily the English, who had in fact messed up the native people's lives whereever they went, but unashamedly claims to have civilised and brought them out of despair.
Today, even a kid knows that the Canada and U.S.A, former english colonies and now independent nations are nothing but stolen native lands.
Which reminds me of some famous quotes by late Irish statesman, George Bernard Shaw:
-The ordinary Britisher imagines that God is an Englishman.
-The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
-I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. -America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation or culture in between
-The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creator's hand.
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