A sober reminder of historical injustice.
Slavery in the Pacific Northwest developed at some point between 500 B.C. and A.D. 500, long before European contact, and at contact, slaves were clearly set apart from the existing tribal ranking system and prestige-seeking in the region. Early indigenous peoples also possessed other practices that predated contact with the British and Europeans: cannibalism and the killing of slaves, the latter of which also occurred and for a variety of reasons: funeral feasts, the building of a new home, a new title, the erection of a totem pole, or as part of the ceremony at potlatches. A Russian Orthodox priest recounted how in one Sitka ceremony where a new clan chief was appointed, four slaves were strangled as part of the ritual.
On another occasion, among both the Mowachaht and the Clayoquot, a slave was killed to celebrate the first whale kill of the season. In Tlinglit folklore, a memorial potlatch was necessary so fellow spirits in the village of the dead would not despise the newly deceased. The memorial included the murder of a slave. Among the Nuu-cah-nulth, a wolf dance also occasioned the taking of a slave’s life. Lastly, in one account of a ceremony at Fort Rupert, British Columbia, two female slaves were burnt as part of a ceremonial display, though they volunteered in the belief they would be resurrected four days hence. The regional slave trade was numerically smaller in absolute terms, though similar as a proportion of some local populations, ranging from almost nil to as high as 40%; the average was 15% of the local population.
“First Nations & Their Slaves”
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F’kn savages,lol
So I wonder which group was worse.
The Northern Tribes or the Southern Ones.
Although it is hard to beat the Aztecs for brutality.
Cortez fixed their wagons.
I identify as a Beothuk. Prove me wrong.
Make sure to apply for all the freebees you are entitled to. Tens of thousands already have, and the list grows longer every day.
Yeah, but they did it ironically and stuff.
White liberals can switch off their indignation when it suits them. I attended a class where my fellow students defended black-on-black slavery as it was better than any other form.
I guess human dignity takes a backseat on a dime.
Just like people defending IKEA making a deal with the GDR to use political prisoner labor to make their furniture…
UCSPanther, exactly.
Greed, apathy, take your pick. As long as white liberals are fine with it, no evil can be condemned.
Kenji, indeed! Only Western culture is bad!
The Phantom, anything I said went in one ear and out the other.
There was very much nuance in the way the beautiful, noble, eco-sensitive, natural, spiritual, Native peoples practiced their ancient religious and cultural beliefs. The white invaders with their “HATEFUL” Bibles simply didn’t understand … the nuance.
Yup. They were one with nature and at peace with each other….. Their oral tradition says so.
Oral tradition = Anishnabe words to describe blowing smoke up whitey’s kilt.
Sweet Grass Smoke.
Oral tradition: We’re too inbred and stupid to develop something like written language. Here in NS we have some stupid collection of letters on our signs that are supposed to mean something. A visitor asked me how to pronounce it, I replied “Gimme a cheque”.
I would have bought a ticket to spectate that class. ~:D Did you burn their hides off?
Yeah, but they did it ironically and stuff.
Whadda great line!
Along with: “It’s ‘science’.”
Can confirm. My wife is Tlinglit, our home runs on slavery. The four kids and I are commodities and reminded of our need to be of sufficient use as to not be traded away. We complain about these abuses but are treated savagely by the people of our village.
“We gather on the traditional lands of slave owning tribes, whose vile practices were ended by courageous evangelical Christians from Britain.”
That should do it.
Canada is a fake country
Canada Divided
Andrew MacGillivray outlines the fundamental nature of the politics which are dividing Canada. He identifies the units operating on the information battlefield (INFOWAR) and how some are undermining Canada in pursuit of their globalist ideology.
Using an approximate analysis of he five main groupings of citizens in Canada (units), he demonstrates how each will play a role as the evolution of Canada continues. This is the first in a series of videos which will finish with CANADA UNITED – an optimistic message of hope.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BzGiCcf1xzg&feature=youtu.be
Cannibalism and slavery you say?.. I guess they are environmentalists after all..
…two female slaves were burnt as part of a ceremonial display, though they volunteered in the belief they would be resurrected four days hence.”
Good Grief! “Pick me…pick me!!!!”
The practice of suttee ( a wife immolating herself on the funeral pyre of her husband) existed in the Punjab for 1000’s of years. The Brits pretty much brought this barbarism to and end in the 100 years of the Raj.
Thought about the very same thing when I posted my comment.
Satan is always demanding slavery and death. New chief explaining imminent execution to slave: “Your body is mine – my body, my choice.”
Obviously the Martyrs Shrine at Midland Ont. must be closed down. Can’t have people knowing about Indians burning Catholic priests at the stake and eating their hearts.
One can’t have the knowledge that Hurons made the conscious choice to embrace a non-aboriginal religion.
Or that the Iroquois Confederacy (six nations… yeah… Mohawks) ethnically cleansed southern Ontario before the British government allowed then to have some land there after the Americans kicked them out of up-state New York because they fought with the losing side in the American Rebellion… And yes Caledonia is not their ancestral land, but they are too gutless to challenge the statetroopers in New York (since they have spines), unlike the OPP.
Caledonia was a travesty.
Related -https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/republicans_attack_matt_walsh_for_telling_the_truth_about_slavery.html
Very informative article. Just one quibble. From ancient Greece, the Roman empire, vikings, etc, Europe had slaves. Slavery disappeared in Europe as the Catholic Church took over. Europeans didn’t get involved in slavery again until the African slave trade began. It’s not only evangelical Christians who opposed slavery.
Dare say slavery has been with us since the dawn of Man.
Remember Moses of the ancient Nation of Israel ( a group of different tribes ) saying to the Egyptian Pharaoh, ” Let my people go. “
I recently read a book based on the account of a white British sailor taken as a slave on Nootka Island (1803-1805). It’s interesting and far too narrative-destroying to be allowed by the institutional left. Besides the slavery, the inter-tribal treachery and genocide was refreshingly unacceptable for revisionist history. It’s “The White Slaves of MaQuinna”. Another good read was “A History of Canada in ten maps”.
Maybe it was okay because none of the slaves were black?
Just a quick question: how many blacks in Canada owned slaves?
Indians owned black slaves. Joseph Brant the Mohawk leader who immigrated to Canada owned lots of black slaves.
The Grievance Industry will call it misinformation, Bernie Farber has probably called it right-wing extremist hate. Eventually the PMO will have dude’s book banned.
The truth does not set a lot of people free. Many just get infuriated because they’re mental defectives.
I remember SHTF when it was pointed out with hard evidence that many SouthWest tribes engaged in cannibalism. The natives on the take were mad as hell.
Yep was all peaceful, loving kindness, happiness and light in the north country until the evil Europeans came along.
Growing up down in Florida I remember many sighing ladies waxing noble savage eloquent about how Eskimos were so utterly peaceful that there wasn’t a word in their language for war.
Years later after getting up here to Alaska and talking with my Eskimo buddies, I found it was quite true, they didn’t have a word for war in Yup’ik, but they had plenty of words for killing Athabaskans.
I’ve heard the eskimo language has 50 words to describe snow. An inordinate amount for a language that consists of approximately 2000 words total.
Urban legend. I lived and worked amongst the Inuit and asked one of the translators about that. She said it was b#!!$&@t.
“Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.”
He lived it.
-Dostoyevsky
One of my favourite lines in a Toronto newspaper about 30 years ago: “They are so open-minded everything has fallen out”.
Somehow the movement to embrace tolerance and an open mind has morphed into cancel culture.
“There’s nothing new in the world except the history you do not know”. Harry Truman.
Got that quote from Viva Frei this morning, quite relevant I thought. I would’ve added “…or what they don’t want you to know”.
I heard on the radio this mornin that when Canadian colonies banned slavery there were around four hundred slaves. Now correct me if I’m wrong but in the circa 1800s we were part of the British Common wealth and not part of a country that didn’t exist yet? Let us not forget their were tribes that practiced live scalpings, and tribes that were cannibals but oh well “Nobel” is the only word we’re allowed to use.
Scalping is a north American practice. I may be wrong but to my knowledge scalping wasn’t used by tribes throughout the world.
They believed that without your hair you couldn’t get into the happy hunting ground.
The Little-Mentioned Ignoble Savage
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/08/the-little-mentioned-ignoble-savage/
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Read where some colonialist got busted for running an
unlicensed pot shop in Oshawa the other week. Maybe
Justin needs to visit the Tyendinaga Mohawk Reserve…
over a hundred (not a word of a lie) sacred weed shops
litter the landscape… not one of them licensed by the
evil white man.
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Here in BC cigarettes are about $18 per pack of 20 in the local convenience store. But we can buy tax free cigs openly at most reservations for $40 per bag of 200. If you want them boxed they are $60. Also menthol cigs are banned in Canada but are readily available on a res. So as white person I cannot buy menthol – only the Natives. Tell me more about equality and discrimination.
Indeed, the indigenous peoples were careful guardians of Mother Earth:
“The evidence show overwhelmingly that the Lapita peoples and their descendants, the Polynesians (with help, no doubt, from the omnivorous Pacific rat), wiped out innumerable varieties of birds, including rails, pigeons, parrots, fruit doves, and megapodes, either by hunting them to extinction or by destroying their habitat. Humans will eat whatever they find and will do whatever it takes to make their environment more habitable; ….It should therefore come as no surprise that the Lapita peoples ate not only the birds but the turtles, lizards, mollusks, fish, and even the large land crocodile of New Caledonia, thereby irrevocably altering every one of the environments they encountered.” (Sea People – The Puzzle of Polynesia, 2019, pages 231-232)