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Article: Lethal attitudes are alive on Turtle Island.
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The attitude and mind set of the present-day Euro-Canadians toward the Marshall decision only re-enforces the much older colonizer mind-set that brought genocide to many Indian people. The belief that "white is right" or somehow superior was presented more than 500 years ago to our ancestors by the Euro-Canadians, and things haven't changed much since then. It is a mind-set the Europeans derived from their "good book," the Bible. It was the excuse used by white, civilized, so-called Christians, to go out into the world and conquer, control, change and destroy those others who were different. For the colored peoples of the world this ideology was deadly. It brought with it ...
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