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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I'm not ignorant of history though. I am quite aware of what the British and French colonialist, the church and the Canadian government have done to screw over First Nations people in Canada. I never spared them from that blame. I was educated in a school that was about 50% First Nations. They certainly didn't ignore history.
I am simply stating that history is more than just a snapshot and if you look at the big picture, aboriginal people have played a role in their current situation.
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Of course they have played a role in their situation, to claim otherwise would be completely idiotic. No one has ever said they didn't play a role.
Saying there are and have been systematic forces at work against natives in Canada, which have hurt them as a people, doesn't discount their influence in their own lives, it just says that they have a much bigger hill to climb.