44 Replies to “We Are All Treaty People”

  1. “…our children were being told to “‘play Indian,’ an act that is historically racist and part of the process of colonization…”

    and…

    “Soon after the concert, when Keenan and Tahirovic sent an apology email to parents, ”

    Shrug. I mean, how do you fix that?

    Toronto: old Onondaga word meaning “land of big papoose”.

  2. An innocuous song written by an Indian is racist?? There are some seriously effing retards out there.

    Land of the Silver Birch

    My paddle’s keen and bright
    Flashing with silver
    Follow the wild goose flight
    Dip, dip and swing
    Dip, dip and swing her back
    Flashing with silver
    Swift as the wild goose flies
    Dip, dip and swing

    Land of the silver birch
    Home of the beaver
    Where still the mighty moose
    Wanders at will
    Blue lake and rocky shore
    I will return once more
    Boom-diddy-ah-da, Boom-diddy-ah-da, Boom-diddy-ah-da, bo-oo-oom

    High on a rocky ledge
    I¹ll build my wigwam
    Close to the water¹s edge
    Silent and still
    Blue lake and rocky shore
    I will return once more
    Boom-diddy-ah-da, Boom-diddy-ah-da, Boom-diddy-ah-da, bo-oo-oom

    My heart grows sick for thee
    Here in the lowlands
    I will return to thee hills of the north
    Blue lake and rocky shore
    I will return once more
    Boom-diddy-ah-da, Boom-diddy-ah-da, Boom-diddy-ah-da, bo-oo-oom

    Land of the silver birch
    Home of the beaver
    Where still the mighty moose
    Wanders at will
    Blue lake and rocky shore
    I will return once more
    Boom-diddy-ah-da, Boom-diddy-ah-da, Boom-diddy-ah-da, bo-oo-oom

    1. When one is a prejudiced and addled by hatred, they look for racism everywhere, so it’s easy to be outraged those you hate.

      Confirmation bias from prejudiced people. Nothing to see here, move along folks. Assuming racism in that song is prejudiced.

      And mean spirited, ignorant, nasty, blind to culture and full of hatred, what they of course project onto the deplorables.

      Then again “wigwam” was mentioned; cue the outrage. Coming to an election near you this Fall.

      Remember, certain facts are actually racism, and the truth is no defense if the hatred and lust for power runs deep enough.

        1. Yup.

          Older Canadian SDA readers may recall what happened in B. C. while PET was in charge. There was scarely a part of that province that hadn’t been the subject of a land claims dispute. Some of them were quietly resolved with lots of $$$.

          Then, of course, there was the scuttling of the Mackenzie Valley pipeline project, courtesy of Thomas Berger’s inquiry. Native “concerns” was the main official reason and guess who was PM at the time?

          I’m sure some of those claims were inspired by what happened in Alaska when the Prudhoe Bay pipeline was built. All sorts of native groups in that state got nice financial settlements and got rich as a result. If I correctly recall an ad about it I once heard, one had to be at least a quarter native (Aleut, Indian, etc.) in order to qualify for a payment.

          Now Prinz Dummkopf is continuing the tradition of handing out gobs of cash to keep them happy.

          1. Had a friend who was doing exploration up the Mackenzie area shortly after the Berger inquiry and the shutting down of the pipeline. It was the company’s policy to hire local where possible, so there were some natives in the exploration camp. The word I got was that they were NOT happy; what the locals wanted was a share in the benefits from the pipeline and that included jobs. The last thing they wanted was the moratorium.

          2. Frances – “what the locals wanted was a share in the benefits from the pipeline and that included jobs. The last thing they wanted was the moratorium.”

            Same thing with the Northern Gateway. The Indians just wanted more cash.. They were played like a Stradivarius by the environmentalists. Just like the Mackenzie River and Delta – no money and no jobs. They are forced to play helpless fools to beg money out of the government instead of backwoods oilpatch jobs that pay about $100 grand and up.

    2. Well … I guess this case makes America the Beautiful the MOST racist of all songs … as white settlers laid claim to Purple Mountain Majesties which were not theirs to claim

    1. the fancy feather head dress?
      ALLLLLLL over the place amongst natives.

      nowadays.

      not so when it first showed up on the plains.

      go figure . . . . . .

      1. Yeah and pretty much everywhere Paleface can’t so much as touch an eagle feather if he happens to come across one in the wild.

        1. “Paleface can’t so much as touch an eagle feather if he happens to come across one in the wild.”
          Get your eagle feathers near tamed wind tower lands, qui mosabie

      2. They are all kings now.. We citizens will need passports to cross the country. Thanks to Turd1.. Individuals seem to have as much power as the majority.

    2. I read somewhere that the Blackfeet tribe had Tobacco fields that they frequently cultivated….They had a tobacco co-Chief who knew where the weed grew, or had seeds…. The Indians had been trading for thousands of years.. Could have come from the Virginia Tribes, they hooked us white eyes too.

      1. Blackfoot agriculture? Nomads of the plains? Dr. Britannica tells me tobacco requires 100 to 130 days after transplanting. Prior to transplanting it is grown 56 to 70 days indoors. That places best outcome at 156 days – 5 months. Calgary? Nope. They may have traded for tobacco or used local substitutes. Anybody up for cornsilk or horse turds with a touch of squirrel hair. Might even kill you quicker than tobacco.

  6. “The song “romanticizes” First Nations people “while at the same time justifying colonization,” it claims. “

    Say the same people who tell us what great “stewards” of the land the indigenous peoples are. The same people who brow beat us daily for living on “unceded” land stolen from the indigenous peoples.

    Who exactly is romaticizing?

    1. You mean the First Nations who wiped out all the large land mammals in North America, environmental land stewards?

  9. Next on the SJW hit list will, no doubt, be Grey Owl…. something about cultural appropriation, I think.

    And, oh boy!, will they ever have a field day in Germany. Indian clubs are popular over there. People dress up and live like Indians for recreation, a form of re-enactment, I suppose. Some members are actually well-versed in the applicable cultures and customs.

    And then there were the western novels written by Karl May….

    1. I think First Nations should stop the cultural appropriation of cars, trucks, and horses.

      Walking was traditional. It would generate less CO2.

        1. fishooks rifles shotguns knives, anything metal in fact. Central heating. Aspirin. Penicylin. surgery. any vegetable in winter. bananas any time.

          Oh yes, I forgot …

          The wheel.

          2. I heard someone once try to explain why the travois is better and smarter than the wheel.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travois

            Even Wikipedia claims that the travois is more versatile than the wheel … because the wheel is ONLY suitable for roads. Hence … the native peoples weren’t primitive savages … they were actually SMARTER than the stupid white Europeans who drove wagons across the country … instead of smartly DRAGGING all their possessions cross 3000 miles. OMG! Who writes this pandering crap!? Someone who has never been in nature? Sheesh.

          4. precisely kenji.
            the critics ignoring the fact that wheels require ROADS that waited for whitey to come along . . . . . .

  10. Singing, or playing on your cd player, a song written by an indigenous person is now cultural appropriation and racist???

    I would have thought refusing to sing a song, or refusing to play a song, simply because it was written by an indigenous person is what would be considered racist. Are the SJW nuts now saying that our indigenous people are limited to only having their musical work played (or sung) by their people and they are not permitted to expand their work into white-man markets? It seems to me the SJWs are the racists!

    What’s next – you will be a racist because you own a canoe or kayak and go paddling somewhere?

    1. “a song written by an indigenous person is now cultural appropriation and racist?”

      Robbie Robertson of The Band, an Iroquios, sold maybe 25? million records to white people. I bet he’s pissed off.

    2. How difficult is it to write an ‘Indigenous song?’ I mean…
      Hi how are ya! – Hi how are ya!

      And then – Heyyyy macaroni !!!

      Repeat ad nausium. Not bad eh!

    3. “What’s next – you will be a racist because you own a canoe or kayak and go paddling somewhere?” Already started. I had my canoe tied on the top of my pickup in a Walmart parking lot in the summer of 2014 and a person of indigenous appearance approached me and told me that my canoe was cultural appropriation. After I picked my jaw up off the pavement, I pointed to her SUV and told her the wheels on that SUV were culturally appropriated from MY people and what did she have to say about that? She called me a racist and walked away.

    1. Hope she gets a face full of Sharia.
      BTW, how will she justify her new religion’s stances on homosexual relationships. Will she now be pushing gays off roof tops? Maybe she should go to Mecca and explain to the Imams, how their understanding of homosexuals in the “Core Rann” is wrong! Would love to read about how that went, in the papers.

  13. Until all Canadian Indians get off the government teat they need to shut their freaking pie holes.

  14. Contest! ( and the most obvious, like the official, acronym will be disallowed)(keep it polite 😉 and let’s hear it for ambiguity!
    AFN – ???

  16. on the topic of culchral proprashun:
    ?
    wtf ?????
    lemme use the hispanic large loop earrings for an example.
    who, on the face of the earth, where and when was
    the
    very
    first
    large
    hooped
    earring
    worn?

    the first one.

    can hisssssspanics PROVE it was one of theirs? hmmmm?
    to CLAIM its ‘yours’ ya gotta PROVE it eh?

    here’s the contradictory hypothetical argument:
    what if some genius neanderthal kid in a moment of down time, took a pc of stiff thin long twig, grass stem etc,
    curled it in a loop and wrapped it around itself to make it stay?
    then took some cedar sap or such thing and glued it to her ear for fun?
    or ANY such scenario?
    or mebbe it waited for an egyptian woman in 3,000 BC?
    or likewise one of the idle rich in the middle ages?
    BILLIONS of candidates for
    the
    very
    first
    use
    of
    large
    hooped
    earring
    anywhere. the very first.
    well folks we aint never gonna know, right?
    what we DO know is that the hispanic commuuuuuunity long ago seized upon it as *theirs*.
    a good probability they were NOT the first.
    so, WHO is the ‘originator’? we dont know who that’s who.
    all we know is hispanics NOW *claim* it as . . . . . as . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *exclusively* THEIRS.

    apparently the ‘appropriation’ rule hinges on how much bullying and propaganda your culture can produce.

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