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Originally Posted by GirlySports
What was the thinking at the time? I'm trying to wrap my head around it. We've conquered this land but let's not completely annihilate them. Let them have their own territory and their own land but take their kids away and put them into essentially re-education camps and they will be 'Canadian' for future generations to come? And if they misbehave we'll just punish them to death then secretly bury them? Was it just one thing led to another, one bad idea led to another, one cover up led to another?
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Prehistoric colonial thinking of civilizing the savages, that's pretty much it
Cant have a bunch of people who are content to just live off the land and have a simple life devoid of the rat race of being industrious and "productive"