• bizarroland@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    I mean sometimes they would just arrest a native American on a freezing cold night, drive them miles out into the middle of nowhere and then kick them out.

    They gave it a beautiful name. They called it a “starlight tour”. And we have no official records of how many native Americans were murdered by Canadian police officers using this process.

    https://allthatsinteresting.com/starlight-tours

    This is one of the first things that comes to my mind, as a native american, every time somebody mentions that Canada is so great and wonderful and how much they wish we could move there.

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      5 months ago

      That’s interesting. I don’t think I have ever seen someone refer to an Aboriginal Canadian as a Native American. Native Canadian yes, but native Americans were always south of the border in my mind.

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        5 months ago

        A native American in the general is somebody that’s native to the Americas.

        There are native Americans in Mexico and in all South American countries as well.

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          5 months ago

          I understand the concept, but I have never heard the term Native American used for anyone except the indigenous people within the United States of america.