It's very fascinating to learn these different traditional medicines indigenous people were using. I assume this may be an example also, on things passed down from one generation to the next, otherwise how would they know to do that? And do they view animal's and insect's close to people as tainted?

I love Elsie Paul's reaction of laughter to the irony of loving cowboy and Indian movie's, I could almost hear her laugh as I read that. I wonder though on if the young boys would portray themselves as the cowboys because they're viewed as the good guys? And if so how did it make them feel to have indigenous people viewed bad?

Until my introduction into indigenous history, I was under the impression that only African Americans had suffered from segregation. I sadly grew up in a racist home towards indigenous people and I now know how ignorant I have been my whole life towards it, and grateful now to learn about it and infuriated by the people who did it.

This just goes to show the lack of care and respect that the government had towards indigenous people and their language . They expected them to learn the English language, and had to, to receive such things as their mail or they would simply just not receive it . Which this to me was just another strategy possibly used to get rid of their way of life.

In History we want to learn even about the horrible things man-kind has done to ensure that it's not repeated. And to me this is saying to remember your culture, your history, and people so that in can continue on into the ages and BE repeated by future generations of indigenous youth.

In History 113 we watched a documentary called How a People live. In it we learn first hand stories of residential survivors and the traumatic experiences they received. Many suffered from abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, etc.These survivors being torn away from families for years and suffering all they had came out of these schools suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and many turned to alcoholism to cope.

This makes me just genuinely sad to read because time and time again throughout history religions, governments, countries, and political parties have tried to force a way of life on a people that did not desire it. And Canada, which had struggled to gain its own identity away from Britain, and fought against Nazi Germany, that tried to eradicate and control a people that we would go and do the exact same thing.