A painting of Pre-Contact Indigenous life

11 Replies to “A painting of Pre-Contact Indigenous life”

1. Sorry Indigenous people. Your stone-age technology and corresponding levels of social and cultural advancement were unable to compete with the more advanced settlers. You failed to grasp the realities of your situation, and how behind the curve you actually were. You could have peacefully integrated over several generations, but you did not. You chose resistance, and you still cling to this resistance. You let your victimhood define you.

2. That was one of the more interesting talks I’ve heard in awhile. Thanks Kate.

3. His reference to Thomas Hobbes is deadly accurate. For indigenous people in Canada, life before the early 20th century was indeed “solitary, nasty, brutish and short.” It was indeed a time of violence constantly, slavery, starvation, and early death. North America had virtually nothing in the way of agricultural crops and hence no food storage.

   The extreme environmentalists who long for a simpler age of natural technology only are simply insane. In general, all people everywhere have never had it so good as is the case right now. Jordan Peterson is indeed correct; now in all of human history is the best time to be alive.

4. Very informative.

5. A little over a year ago I read “Ancient Mariner: The Arctic Adventures of Samuel Hearne…”.

   Hearne was the HBC man who conducted the first overland trip by a European from Fort Prince of Wales on Hudson Bay to the mouth of the Coppermine River on the Arctic Ocean. This was round trip of about 8,000 km. Hearne, and his guide, Matonabbee, were very much dependent upon the later’s eight “wives” to do the cooking, prepare the food, make clothing etc. (in actuality the women were bought as “wives” by Matonabbee, who was a wealthy indigenous man because of his connections with the HBC).

   One of Hearne’s journal entries sticks in my mind. Apparently, at a point during the return trip, one of Matonabbee’s wives rebuked him for something or other. Matonabbee then proceeded to beat her to death for the affront. Another recorded entry describes how an older woman who had fallen ill was having difficulty keeping up with the travelling party. Eventually she was simply left behind and none of the indigenous travelling with Hearne seemed too bothered by it.

   Oh, and then there is the entry where Matonabee and his Coppermine indigenous allies captured and tortured to death an elderly Inuit woman.

   Nasty, brutish and short indeed.

6. Decolonization, deconstruction, etc. just another way to tear down the civilized world and replace it with communism, socialism, liberal racism or whatever they’re calling it today.

   Leftist activists like teachers, politicians or professors believe they will be the slave owners and not the slaves, they think they would be the ones ordering the rest of us around if they got everything they wanted. But the reality is they would get slaughtered.

   Life is good today, mostly pain free and no one appears to be too hungry, it’s a shame that so many are too stupid to realize that they have been manipulated and lied to into believing otherwise.

   1. What’s wrong with you? Civilization is awful!

      Can I have a double-double with an extra shot?

7. Now Demonize the Indigenous.
   Lots of dead people, lots of forest fires.

8. A good book that describes west coast life at the time of first contact before “colonization”, I recommend: https://www.amazon.ca/White-Slaves-Maquinna-Narrative-Confinement/dp/1894384024

9. I wonder what part of primitive savages don’t people understand?

10. A culture that hates itself, likes sexually mutilating its children, voluntarily imports millions of enemies, and celebrates the killing of its unborn does not have a foot to stand on when it comes to pointing out any deficiencies of other cultures.
    The Indians, for all their primitive savagery, had a superior culture than what we are “enjoying” now.
    So do the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, Burmese, Hindus, etc.