You have likely heard of the false allegations of mass graves caused by towns using the same graveyard, said graveyards being old, the decay of the wooden coffins and markers, and the shifting of bones in the ground caused by the "wandering landmine" effect, but I have also noticed that while natives were banned from leaving the reserves without a pass if registered at one point, they could simply deregister and still practice their culture while also being able to vote and keep their kids out of residential schools even if it meant risking homelessness due to getting banned from the reserve by the government without having a pass or necessary government employment.
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I will be brutally honest.
When they, still to this day, treat their kids like absolute shit, I find it hilarious they pretend le white man was harming them so.
Child beating and rape is the traditional hobby of the rez. With some murder, that also gets blamed on whites.
That happens because they abuse booze, which increases the risk of all that shit due to intoxication.
Implementing laws to ban dangerous drunks from buying the shit, punishing people who knowingly supply said drunks, and finally by executing dangerous drunks if the resist and reoffend.
I don't think that's just it by itself.
These people's culture is centuries behind. When the white man arrived, they had many things introduced to them that were way beyond their cultural development. They basically skipped centuries of development.
On top of that, they are being told their ways are the right way. They have an incentive to keep up their semi-civilisation.
We have the same in aus.
They rape, child marry, and stone and spear each other for punishment, and it's not a secret. If any white person did anything they did, they'd lose their kid so fast your head would spin.
You lost your kids? Tough shit, so would I if I acted half as badly as you lot, fuck off.