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<p>[QUOTE="kentworld, post: 9471464, member: 35"]I'd just like to add that yes, Native American is OK, but not a term much used in Canada. Komokwa knows much more that I do about Native American/Indigenous/ First Nations art than I do. But recent events have brought relations and history of settlers and First Nations to the fore, so the difficult history is what we are grappling with today. Many tribes occupied territory that straddled the border between Canada and the US so even today some tribes or bands, as they are sometimes called, have relatives in both countries. There is a difference in how Americans and Canadians treated the indigenous people in the early days and both countries have different policies governing relations between the various tribes/bands and the government. One unseen problem that happened with "first contact" between explorers and indigenous people was small pox. The Europeans brought it with them, as it were, and the indigenous people had no immunity. How many succumbed exactly is unknown, but it is thought about 75% or more of the Native population died. I think many now know about the residential schools in Canada, the Pope's visit and apology. We have a federally mandated "Truth and Reconciliation" program underway which is trying to address some the problems that First Nations have enumerated. One problem is the Doctrine of Discovery which Europeans used to call any land they discovered "theirs." Of course, money and commerce was at the base of it. Link to some information about this doctrine which undermined so much of the colonial attitude during the era of exploration: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/03/30/1167056438/vatican-doctrine-of-discovery-colonialism-indigenous#:~:text=Press-,Vatican%20repudiates%20the%20'Doctrine%20of%20Discovery%2C'%20which%20underpinned%20colonialism,who%20had%20been%20living%20there" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.npr.org/2023/03/30/1167056438/vatican-doctrine-of-discovery-colonialism-indigenous#:~:text=Press-,Vatican%20repudiates%20the%20'Doctrine%20of%20Discovery%2C'%20which%20underpinned%20colonialism,who%20had%20been%20living%20there" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/2023/03/30/1167056438/vatican-doctrine-of-discovery-colonialism-indigenous#:~:text=Press-,Vatican repudiates the 'Doctrine of Discovery,' which underpinned colonialism,who had been living there</a>. I know I've written a lot here but as they say, there are two sides to every story and we're hearing the other side now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kentworld, post: 9471464, member: 35"]I'd just like to add that yes, Native American is OK, but not a term much used in Canada. Komokwa knows much more that I do about Native American/Indigenous/ First Nations art than I do. But recent events have brought relations and history of settlers and First Nations to the fore, so the difficult history is what we are grappling with today. Many tribes occupied territory that straddled the border between Canada and the US so even today some tribes or bands, as they are sometimes called, have relatives in both countries. There is a difference in how Americans and Canadians treated the indigenous people in the early days and both countries have different policies governing relations between the various tribes/bands and the government. One unseen problem that happened with "first contact" between explorers and indigenous people was small pox. The Europeans brought it with them, as it were, and the indigenous people had no immunity. How many succumbed exactly is unknown, but it is thought about 75% or more of the Native population died. I think many now know about the residential schools in Canada, the Pope's visit and apology. We have a federally mandated "Truth and Reconciliation" program underway which is trying to address some the problems that First Nations have enumerated. One problem is the Doctrine of Discovery which Europeans used to call any land they discovered "theirs." Of course, money and commerce was at the base of it. Link to some information about this doctrine which undermined so much of the colonial attitude during the era of exploration: [URL='https://www.npr.org/2023/03/30/1167056438/vatican-doctrine-of-discovery-colonialism-indigenous#:~:text=Press-,Vatican%20repudiates%20the%20'Doctrine%20of%20Discovery%2C'%20which%20underpinned%20colonialism,who%20had%20been%20living%20there']https://www.npr.org/2023/03/30/1167056438/vatican-doctrine-of-discovery-colonialism-indigenous#:~:text=Press-,Vatican repudiates the 'Doctrine of Discovery,' which underpinned colonialism,who had been living there[/URL]. I know I've written a lot here but as they say, there are two sides to every story and we're hearing the other side now.[/QUOTE]
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