RE: [Marxism] British Genocide and intentionality

["Mark Lause" <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ted wrote, "However oppressed the indigenous people in Canada may be
today I think I am correct in saying that there were NO, yes NO 'Indian
Wars' in Canada from the 1820s onwards although on the prairies, the
tribes ecology etc etc were exactly the same as in the USA south of the
49th parallel. Sioux etc. . . . It was much, much worse in the States.
(The Red River Campaign of 1867, Riel's rebellion, was waged against the
metis, not the tribes.)"

Well, much of this is an apples-and-oranges vocabulary.  Anglo-American
culture did not even have "metis" as a category south of the border.
The U.S. authorities discussed the large populations removed in terms of
"Indians" and "tribes."

I'm less familiar with groups in the far west, but the large populations
removed from east of the Mississippi after the 1820s were actually, to
use the Canadian terminology, "metis" with an economy and a social
structure looking pretty much the same as that of their white neighbors.
A good guesstimate is that Chief John Ross of the Cherokee was only
about one-eighth Cherokee.

ML



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