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Nancy's avatar

I appreciate the writer taking what I thought was a historical fact and challenging it. “The buffalo herds were destroyed by white settlers. The Indians had sustainably cherished the herds and life.”

We can see how our thinking has been influenced. I have been brainwashed and can’t think except for the accepted narrative since it is repeated so often. This is like the 215 “graves found” at Kamloops. My typically enlightened teacher friend nods and confirms the “killings” by the priests. Misinformation reinforces misinformation and on and on. And she is a teacher who is one of the more enlightened, awake ones.

I realize you can be awake for some things but won’t see the big big picture to see the extent of the brain control.

We need more of these excellent articles to address each of the things we have been taught. And debunk them. I’m not a historian or a good writer but I can do my part by reading, reflecting and bringing it up with my spheres of influence in a gentle way. People aren’t ready to accept such big changes in their beliefs. But some who are awaken in another area eg. Covid vaccines may find the process of reflection and the epiphany easier to get to.

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KEMOSABE's avatar

A very well researched article, which in the context of today, is not surprising. Our indigenous neighbors have a well deserved reputation of being very good story tellers and mythologizing their history. Of course the best whopper to date is the genocidal murders of all those children hidden away in unmarked graves, a mute testimony to the efforts of the faith community to solve the indian problem.

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