{"product_id":"playing-the-indian-card-everything-you-know-about-canadas-first-nations-is-wrong-paperback","title":"Playing the Indian Card: Everything You Know about Canada's \"First Nations\" Is Wrong - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephen Kent Roney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEverything you think you know about Canada's \"First Nations\" is probably wrong: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. First Nations are not aboriginal or indigenous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Most Canadians have Indian ancestry; most Canadian Indians have European ancestry. The Indians are us--all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Life before contact was no peaceable kingdom. It was nasty, brutish, and short. We are blinded here by the romantic \"Noble Savage\" myth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. No land was stolen from the Indians. No Indians were harmed in the making of this country, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. There was no genocide of Canadian Indians; there was no attempted genocide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. First Nations had no special interest in or concern for the environment. They did not believe the physical world was real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. What we think is \"native spirituality\" was invented by non-Indians in the 1960s and 70s. Real Indians are Christian, and more devout than other Canadians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. The residential schools are a scapegoat. They were wanted by the Indians themselves, and there was nothing particularly wrong with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. There has been no hostility towards Canada's First Nations on the part of the majority population. Indians have almost always been revered. They have always had a good press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. There has been no attempt to force Canada's First Nations to assimilate. There has been no \"cultural genocide.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. What we think we do to help \"the poor Indians\" has been killing them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead the truth, based on the real evidence: mostly on original historical documents, recorded by those in first contact: explorers, missionaries, and the Indians themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 498\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 20, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284840038649,"sku":"9781775267812","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/c25Kcm14Q0c5ZTcyUmFZY3l3QmJYQT09.webp?v=1769092224","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/playing-the-indian-card-everything-you-know-about-canadas-first-nations-is-wrong-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}