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Your regular reminder that the first example is Canadian. (The clue is “first nations.”)
Much as we like to pretend otherwise, America doesn’t have a monopoly on racism, genocide, or whitewashing.
also a reminder than australian schools do not acknowledge our own history of slavery, or “blackbirding”. i had no idea 60,000 pacific islanders were kidnapped and enslaved in australia until after i graduated, because no one talks about it. and even what we do learn is watered down. the focus was always on white settlers and how they discovered land, their mapping, their dedication and their struggles; only very briefly do we get to focus on the murders they committed, the generational trauma they caused by stealing an entire generation for the sole purpose of breeding the indigenous blood out of them, the indescribable, abhorrent things they did to indigenous people.
part of the lasting effects of colonialism is denying it ever happened in the first place.
wherever you go, if it’s a country the europeans invaded, chances are people who live there and were born and raised there are not taught about the violence indigenous people suffered and still suffer today.
i’m aboriginal. 1/3 of my school was indigenous to australia. our education on colonial australia was dedicated to white men and white men only.
fun fact! the most recent recorded officially sanctioned mass murder of indigenous australians happened in 1928. it was the coniston massacre. we’re not taught any of this. we were taught about ‘burke and wills were so brave to trek the savage deserts uwu’.
racism against indigenous people is a disease and america isn’t the only country with it.
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