“The members of what are now called the First Nations sure seem to get the short end of the stick a lot. Hundreds of years ago, Europeans came to North America and conquered them with booze, smallpox, and superior firepower. In recent decades, the Canadian government abducted native children and locked them up for some forced re-education and abuse. In recent weeks, newspapers have reported notably on unsafe water supplies and inadequate housing on native reserves.” (Bradley Doucet)

If this isn’t unjust then i don’t know what is, the face that native people were here before us and “owned” the land before any one else. when Europeans came and took advantage of them and forced them to live on  reserves that could hardly support life shows how much man kind will manipulate every one and every thing around them just to get what thy want. When you take there children and force then to be “white” by making them where north American clothes and speak English and forget there all of there heritage is taking away from there rights as humans to have any religion of choice.  these peole live below the poverty line because most of them cant get off there reserves from problems like alcoholism, and not having enough money to get a car or a way to get to school to get an education. Im sure that if they were given and equal chance at every thng they would becoem more superior then most Americans/Canadians.

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