46 Replies to “Got Land?”

  3. Got out of the stone age (3,000 years after everyone else)? Thank a white man.
    That said, the teenager should be allowed to wear the shirt. Freedom of expression is for everybody even when they’re wrong.

  5. “the teenager should be allowed to wear the shirt”
    They’re just doing their job, which is to prepare the girl for university.
    That said, why thank an Indian?
    It isn’t as if they made the land or improved it in any way.
    They didn’t own it, their own culture had no concept of owning the land.

  7. Got computer? You’re welcome. Got books? You’re welcome. Got supermarkets? You’re welcome. Got guns to hunt? You’re welcome. Got your welfare cheque? You’r not so welcome there.

  18. One wonders what would happen if the Solutrean hypothesis was proven accurate. The Solutrean hypothesis contends that Europeans may have been in Americas before the arrival of a later wave of people of Asian mongoloid who wiped out the European Solutreans. That would mean, of course, that the entire case and foundation for the so called “First Nations” would collapse into a steaming pile.
    Of course, the Indian industry is fighting hard to discredit and cover up the Solutrean hypothesis.

  22. Good point, Kate!
    The right to freely express ones feelings in Canada is spot on of course, and should be celebrated!
    The FIRST NATION guy’s TEE Shirt slogan may be correct, but get over it, get off your asses and live in the NOW, not in the past.
    The issue among CANADIAN FIRST NATIONS BANDS should be “self sufficiency” as opposed to “handouts” and FIRST NATIONS BANDS need turn their eyes to CHIEF CLARENCE LOUIE’S OSOYOOS BAND as a role model rather than the TEE shirt guy or Shawn Atleo, for that matter!
    Wear what you like but do not block Roads to Diamond mines or Pipelines or those fracking for natural “gas”!
    Canada is the BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, so be Damned glad you live here and not in CUBA, Arabia, EGYPT or RUSSIA!!

  25. The first immigrants in Beringia had horses, camels too, but likely killed and ate them, which forced them back to Asia.

  26. “Got a life span of 80 years? Thank white medicine.”
    I probably went to school with this kid’s parents,as the Pine Creek kids were bused into my home town to attend high school. I knew three Menards, they were successful farmers,and actually at least half French.
    Maybe Jeff’s a lazy relative who went back to the Rez for the easy money,and compared to horse farming, it IS easy money.
    Another day, another “victim” joins the grievance industry. I feel the proper amount of white guilt.

  27. As a friend of mine is fond of saying, “20,000 years on this continent and your people hadn’t even invented the wheel yet. In the giant 1:1 scale game of Sid Meier’s Civ, you lost. Get over it.”

  28. Got:
    algebra, astronomy, anesthetics, antiseptics, antibiotics?
    calculus, chemistry, computers?
    detergent?
    electricity and uses for it?
    fuel other than wood and dried manure?
    geometry?
    horses (brought to the Americas by Europeans)?
    microscopes?
    nylon?
    physics, plumbing?
    vaccines?
    I’d go on, but alphabetizing things is tiring. In fairness, I’ll point out that some folks living in the Americas prior to the arrival of Europeans had wheels (the Zapotecs, I think, although they used them only for toys) and writing (some residents of the Yucatan and perhaps the Incas). I’ll take European culture any day (and, yes, I know that algebra was invented, or, more accurately, re-discovered by an Arab).

  31. While I don’t discount what others have said, I would suggest that the biggest thing we’ve given them is Western medicine. Even though child mortality among aboriginals is higher than it is for other Canadians, it’s still waaaay down from what it was.
    Most natives should be thanking us that they are still alive.

  32. Let us ask some key questions.
    How many people lived in the land called Canada, at about the time the pale face showed up?
    How much land of the Canadian landscape did the natives occupied?
    There is no question that the natives have claim to certain parcels. The problem arises where are the parcels.
    If you go through the place called Stand Off in south of Alberta, have a look, they have some of most beautiful parcels of land on the prairies, heh most of it is leased to pale faces. You see, it requires actual work to produce something off that most magnificent prairie.
    If you drive in slow motion through the town itself, you will find nothing but the most sorry poverty, it looks much like a poor Mexican village, though the village is taken care of, since there is no hand out to the villagers.
    The Mexicans can’t afford beer and liquor, so they look after their village.
    In Stand Off you will find houses that are in worst shape than the huts of Obama’s ancestors (careful here, Obama has European ancestors, even if he would like to hide it).
    On your short drive, You may see a drunk falling out of a house through a screen door without screen or glass. You may see a drunk sleeping in an impossibly convoluted position on the step to a house.
    Basically you may see things that you may have read about, in real time.
    Just to keep this tight and in perspective, it is 100% fault of the pale face government.

  33. I have no problem with the student being allowed to wear that shirt, freedom of speech and expression are incredibly important. My problem is with the administration not allowing Caucasian students to wear articles of clothing expressing their beliefs and/or opinions. One of the staff at Balcarres school recently told me that one of the non aboriginal students asked the principal if they could wear a shirt that said “got food ? Thank a farmer”. The principals reply was absolutely NOT…

  34. they had horses but doggone done et them all
    when the old man dam was being built they found old fossilized hoof prints.
    hey Cortez , your sitting on your lunch

  37. Got syphilis – thank an indian
    The history of syphilis has been well studied, but the exact origin of syphilis is unknown.[2] There are two primary hypotheses: one proposes that syphilis was carried from the Americas to Europe by the crew of Christopher Columbus,(wikipedia)

  38. “Guns Germs and Steel”, you guys should read it. You’ll read all about how advancements in European and Asian cultures had more to do with climate and trade patterns than racial superiority, which is what most of you clearly believe based on this insanely racist post. SDA and Storm Front should set up a partnership.

  39. Clearly reading something and understanding it, are completely different things. BTW: How does Diamond know? Was he there?
    It appears (to John) climate and trade patterns kept the Indians in the stone age. All that remains is the stone age mentality – with the benefit North American technology to express it.
    Got travois?

  41. All facts that contradict the meme are racist.
    Idiocy is inherent in true believers.
    How do the treaties between the “native” indians and the people they supplanted read?
    Oh right, they are dead, extinguished.
    And there was no written language to write the treaty, if rule of law had even been dreamed of.
    The oral legions of the “first people” used to refer to those they pushed aside.
    Will our libraries now be burnt?
    Or are all the “Johns” signing out the old books and disappearing this racist history?

  44. We oppressed true natives, we stole their land, we killed them blah blah blah historical grievances.
    I future they got their revenge ( and then some) by introducing the whites to tobacco. How come natives aren’t held account for those countless millions of slow painful deaths the world over?
    Just asking….

  46. Actually, syphilis has been found in the carcas of a bear frozen in arctic permafrost from at least 20,000 years ago. The disease originated in North America.

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