That's all well and good, but it rely's entirely on the predominantly white-christian view of aboriginal culture, which had survived and grown on it's own terms before our arrival.
Colonialism is based upon the white man feeling a duty to educate and "fix" the "savages."
They may have believed they had First Nations best interest in mind, but that is no longer relevant. The nice thing about history, is we can look back with added context.
"It was acceptable back then" is not a reasonable argument.
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