This is a great article. As a teacher, like Igor, I object most to the woke indoctrination in schools, as with land acknowledgements. Students are fed lies on a daily basis without the educational right to question or disagree. Schools have become brainwashing centres for an ancient part of the population that grifts and for politicians who virtue signal for votes.
When I was a kid we sang O Canada in the morning at school and the teacher read "The Lord's Prayer," which we all recited. O Canada was sung before most public ceremonies, now I mostly hear it at sports games. Now we have "Land Acknowledgements," not only at schools but before every ceremony or public meeting. They have replaced all other forms of national and religious ritual prior to these events, and in schools. I've been to music and arts events where the acknowledgement goes on to become a condemnation of Western society, an original sin for disrupting what was allegedly a pristine "Garden of Eden."
Post-factum verbal land grabs have become an involuntary national yawn... #historyhasbeendecided
When I think of my young daughter's astonishment that I did not know the hand gestures to the local tribe's new anthem (a karaoke type sing-along played with video prior to the National anthem of
Canada!) During a recent graduation ceremony from a school district in BC, I am reminded of the level of indoctrination and inculcating effort heaped on the psyche of my children as they enter the wider world. What is the message to take away in our youth as a "new western" country? Were we not born at Vimy and Juno shedding our Canadian blood upon foreign soil in freedom's name?
Apparently, I have drawn the ire of "parochial", self-appointed demigods recently. Those held aloft in their perches of vice-regal superintendent status by attendants of oak & ivy loyalty! A letter was dispatched from a plebian to a patrician, as a footnote, it aimed at inclusion, diversity and equity...
As follows:
"Lands of Canada Acknowledgement:
I/we would like to thank those settlers and newcomers who brought their science, knowledge, skills, trade, craft, art, music, tools, daring, courage and determination to forge a new prosperity in harmony with our Earth, here in what is now known as the continent of North America, owned by no one in particular but the people who inhabit, pay taxes for the services provided by the industries built for the betterment and quality of life we enjoy; from: hospitals, schools, road and rail to hydro, wind and heat keeping our families warm and last but not least our military who stand on guard for thee. "God keep our land glorious and free... In all thy sons command." - Long Live the King!"
PS - Feel at liberty to substitute "Kallipolis" for 'Kanada' ;-)
There’s a great book written in the 1850s “The History of the Ojibway People” by a guy who spoke ojibway and gathered many stories from the chiefs. (Torturing captured enemies by fire, to death, including children was common.) There are excellent stories too. But you begin to think maybe it is for the best that other “ways of knowing” were introduced to them. Which is not to diminish their superb survival skills. (There is a story about witch doctors that is horrifying, sobering and inspiring-in how they were defeated.) At one point i went to a blanket exercise that was vivid yet one sided. Some attendees were emotionally destroyed by the end. It was all true but half-true because so much is left out that hides the full humanity of these peoples. Both heroic and horrific. I descend from the miq maq so when the feather came to me to share at the end i gave the other side as gently and respectfully as possible. The indigenous woman running it respected and appreciated my input. I was pleasantly surprised. Our relatives lived in the same small town and look similar to her.
The church who hosted it had for years preached against “rules rituals and routines that keep people from god.” But weeks later they were doing smudging remotely via zoom on a Sunday morning service livestream. The smoke is meant to purify the air from evil spirits. Do you think that the grandfathers who designed it did so presuming the smoke travels via web-cam across the internet to anyone watching so the air in their apartment in the sky is cleaned? This also does not recognize the creator’s power to cleanse us without any magic efforts of our own. So it seemed a miss from both perspectives. In real life i can smell the sage at least.
When the speaker begins their “Land Ownership Acknowledgment” could one stand up & say “not I, thank you”?
Leave, then return?
Raise a hand during & afterward ask “what exactly was that about?”
Seriously though…
If only I were a performance artist who could flagellate myself with a copy of the TRreport. “Woe! I’m a genociding-settler! Send me back to where I came from!”
The real truth of this entire fiasco. 1 Lies 2 Money grab 3 Land grab 4 Falsehoods 5 Government lies 6 Indigenous fairy tales 7 Media corruption
It would appear that the only persons believing the narrative laid down by that infamous so called Truth Commission are Trudeau & his lackies, a few other whacko NDP types and the uneducated sheeple
To attempt to go backwards and rewrite history is a non-starter and nothing worthwhile can come from that. people from any race that continually whine and moan "oh woe is me" do nothing but wallow in a self pity that does absolutely nothing to make things better for themselves.
I would suggest they show some gumption, develop some self esteem stop drinking and or using drugs, clean yourself up get some education and a job and break that circle of everlasting reliance on other people to supply you with the necessities of life.
A few years back a friend shared with me this "Indigenous World View" video that she and her fellow employees had been required to watch as part of their Indigenous awareness training. It's about 5 minutes long, and you've probably seen similar productions if you're still in the world of work. This one was made in 2014, and has probably been replaced with something more sophisticated in the DEI curriculum, but it's still worth a shudder, er, I mean, a share. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?view=detail&mid=92A78860DA60E855E68A92A78860DA60E855E68A&q=indigenous
"Old attitudes have to change. Statements like “The Indians are the only true Canadians.” This implies that the Indian is a better type of Canadian than newly-arrived immigrants and this is not true. The further ideas that Indians were the first owners of the country and the land was taken from them are again misconceptions. At the time of the arrival of the white man the Indian did not occupy all of the country, therefor it cannot be said that the land was taken away from him"
Indians are not "inherently " different than any other ethnic group. The same things make them laugh, the same things make them cry, they want the same things for their children.
If the government announced tommrow that all children who had ever attended a public school were eligible for compensation in amounts from $20,000 to $225,000 for uncorroberated abuse of any kind (physical, psychological or otheise), what do we think the responce might be in the general non-native population?...we have the recent Covid-19 government messures which might give us some guidance in our estimate
Every time I hear one of these grandiose appeasement statements, I feel like standing up in a most dignified and regal fashion to say, "You're welcome. My people brought electricity, flush toilets, and motor cars to this world. Please, use them as often as you like quite freely."
At the end of the day you're either a sovereign country or you're not. US context here so a bit different since we're also busy obsessing about 1619 and slavery, but land acknowledgements are ubiquitous here too in blue states at least, and I want to scream every time. My Celtic ancestors were driven to the edges of the European continent by my Germanic ancestors and all of us are descended from slaves and enslavers, rapists and raped, colonizers and colonized. Enough with the identitarian absolutism! "The evil European oppressor/noble Indigenous victim narrative" indeed. Such good versus evil binaries are the perfect precursor to genocide (see also Yugoslavia or Rwanda or many other tragic examples). We have to counter this, and powerfully, without resorting to the same destructive tribalism. Thank you for your voice!
In about 1996 I read in an E.I.R. magazine that the Bilderburger group had decided to change the name of the Georgia Strait to the Salish Sea. The name of Queen Charlotte Island will be changed to Haida Gwai. and B.C. will be given back to the Indians.
People that advocate to give our land to the Indians should get the hell out of here. Put your feet in action with your words. thank you, Marylyn
Instead of acknowledging that we are on native traditional land they are now saying that we are on native land. The plan is to give Canada or B.C. back to the natives just like they did to Rhodesia.
Every time I hear one of these grandiose appeasement statements, I feel like standing up in a most dignified and regal fashion to say, "You're welcome. My people brought electricity, flush toilets, and motor cars to this world. Please, use them as often as you like quite freely."
This is a great article. As a teacher, like Igor, I object most to the woke indoctrination in schools, as with land acknowledgements. Students are fed lies on a daily basis without the educational right to question or disagree. Schools have become brainwashing centres for an ancient part of the population that grifts and for politicians who virtue signal for votes.
When I was a kid we sang O Canada in the morning at school and the teacher read "The Lord's Prayer," which we all recited. O Canada was sung before most public ceremonies, now I mostly hear it at sports games. Now we have "Land Acknowledgements," not only at schools but before every ceremony or public meeting. They have replaced all other forms of national and religious ritual prior to these events, and in schools. I've been to music and arts events where the acknowledgement goes on to become a condemnation of Western society, an original sin for disrupting what was allegedly a pristine "Garden of Eden."
Post-factum verbal land grabs have become an involuntary national yawn... #historyhasbeendecided
When I think of my young daughter's astonishment that I did not know the hand gestures to the local tribe's new anthem (a karaoke type sing-along played with video prior to the National anthem of
Canada!) During a recent graduation ceremony from a school district in BC, I am reminded of the level of indoctrination and inculcating effort heaped on the psyche of my children as they enter the wider world. What is the message to take away in our youth as a "new western" country? Were we not born at Vimy and Juno shedding our Canadian blood upon foreign soil in freedom's name?
Apparently, I have drawn the ire of "parochial", self-appointed demigods recently. Those held aloft in their perches of vice-regal superintendent status by attendants of oak & ivy loyalty! A letter was dispatched from a plebian to a patrician, as a footnote, it aimed at inclusion, diversity and equity...
As follows:
"Lands of Canada Acknowledgement:
I/we would like to thank those settlers and newcomers who brought their science, knowledge, skills, trade, craft, art, music, tools, daring, courage and determination to forge a new prosperity in harmony with our Earth, here in what is now known as the continent of North America, owned by no one in particular but the people who inhabit, pay taxes for the services provided by the industries built for the betterment and quality of life we enjoy; from: hospitals, schools, road and rail to hydro, wind and heat keeping our families warm and last but not least our military who stand on guard for thee. "God keep our land glorious and free... In all thy sons command." - Long Live the King!"
PS - Feel at liberty to substitute "Kallipolis" for 'Kanada' ;-)
There’s a great book written in the 1850s “The History of the Ojibway People” by a guy who spoke ojibway and gathered many stories from the chiefs. (Torturing captured enemies by fire, to death, including children was common.) There are excellent stories too. But you begin to think maybe it is for the best that other “ways of knowing” were introduced to them. Which is not to diminish their superb survival skills. (There is a story about witch doctors that is horrifying, sobering and inspiring-in how they were defeated.) At one point i went to a blanket exercise that was vivid yet one sided. Some attendees were emotionally destroyed by the end. It was all true but half-true because so much is left out that hides the full humanity of these peoples. Both heroic and horrific. I descend from the miq maq so when the feather came to me to share at the end i gave the other side as gently and respectfully as possible. The indigenous woman running it respected and appreciated my input. I was pleasantly surprised. Our relatives lived in the same small town and look similar to her.
The church who hosted it had for years preached against “rules rituals and routines that keep people from god.” But weeks later they were doing smudging remotely via zoom on a Sunday morning service livestream. The smoke is meant to purify the air from evil spirits. Do you think that the grandfathers who designed it did so presuming the smoke travels via web-cam across the internet to anyone watching so the air in their apartment in the sky is cleaned? This also does not recognize the creator’s power to cleanse us without any magic efforts of our own. So it seemed a miss from both perspectives. In real life i can smell the sage at least.
Is there a practical way to politely resist?
When the speaker begins their “Land Ownership Acknowledgment” could one stand up & say “not I, thank you”?
Leave, then return?
Raise a hand during & afterward ask “what exactly was that about?”
Seriously though…
If only I were a performance artist who could flagellate myself with a copy of the TRreport. “Woe! I’m a genociding-settler! Send me back to where I came from!”
The real truth of this entire fiasco. 1 Lies 2 Money grab 3 Land grab 4 Falsehoods 5 Government lies 6 Indigenous fairy tales 7 Media corruption
It would appear that the only persons believing the narrative laid down by that infamous so called Truth Commission are Trudeau & his lackies, a few other whacko NDP types and the uneducated sheeple
To attempt to go backwards and rewrite history is a non-starter and nothing worthwhile can come from that. people from any race that continually whine and moan "oh woe is me" do nothing but wallow in a self pity that does absolutely nothing to make things better for themselves.
I would suggest they show some gumption, develop some self esteem stop drinking and or using drugs, clean yourself up get some education and a job and break that circle of everlasting reliance on other people to supply you with the necessities of life.
A few years back a friend shared with me this "Indigenous World View" video that she and her fellow employees had been required to watch as part of their Indigenous awareness training. It's about 5 minutes long, and you've probably seen similar productions if you're still in the world of work. This one was made in 2014, and has probably been replaced with something more sophisticated in the DEI curriculum, but it's still worth a shudder, er, I mean, a share. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?view=detail&mid=92A78860DA60E855E68A92A78860DA60E855E68A&q=indigenous
"Old attitudes have to change. Statements like “The Indians are the only true Canadians.” This implies that the Indian is a better type of Canadian than newly-arrived immigrants and this is not true. The further ideas that Indians were the first owners of the country and the land was taken from them are again misconceptions. At the time of the arrival of the white man the Indian did not occupy all of the country, therefor it cannot be said that the land was taken away from him"
William Wuttunee Ruffled Feathers
Indians are not "inherently " different than any other ethnic group. The same things make them laugh, the same things make them cry, they want the same things for their children.
If the government announced tommrow that all children who had ever attended a public school were eligible for compensation in amounts from $20,000 to $225,000 for uncorroberated abuse of any kind (physical, psychological or otheise), what do we think the responce might be in the general non-native population?...we have the recent Covid-19 government messures which might give us some guidance in our estimate
Every time I hear one of these grandiose appeasement statements, I feel like standing up in a most dignified and regal fashion to say, "You're welcome. My people brought electricity, flush toilets, and motor cars to this world. Please, use them as often as you like quite freely."
At the end of the day you're either a sovereign country or you're not. US context here so a bit different since we're also busy obsessing about 1619 and slavery, but land acknowledgements are ubiquitous here too in blue states at least, and I want to scream every time. My Celtic ancestors were driven to the edges of the European continent by my Germanic ancestors and all of us are descended from slaves and enslavers, rapists and raped, colonizers and colonized. Enough with the identitarian absolutism! "The evil European oppressor/noble Indigenous victim narrative" indeed. Such good versus evil binaries are the perfect precursor to genocide (see also Yugoslavia or Rwanda or many other tragic examples). We have to counter this, and powerfully, without resorting to the same destructive tribalism. Thank you for your voice!
In about 1996 I read in an E.I.R. magazine that the Bilderburger group had decided to change the name of the Georgia Strait to the Salish Sea. The name of Queen Charlotte Island will be changed to Haida Gwai. and B.C. will be given back to the Indians.
People that advocate to give our land to the Indians should get the hell out of here. Put your feet in action with your words. thank you, Marylyn
Instead of acknowledging that we are on native traditional land they are now saying that we are on native land. The plan is to give Canada or B.C. back to the natives just like they did to Rhodesia.
Excellent!
Every time I hear one of these grandiose appeasement statements, I feel like standing up in a most dignified and regal fashion to say, "You're welcome. My people brought electricity, flush toilets, and motor cars to this world. Please, use them as often as you like quite freely."
https://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/2277970-Acknowledgement-Of-Country