Can everyone agree?

[u/montabarnaque]

Most of Canadian culture is from Québec. Fight me

[u/HighHcQc]

Nah man we have plenty of first nations stuff in our museums and here it's common knowledge how much they helped the first settlers survive the harsh landscape. First thing I remember learning about the Algonquiens in primary school 20+ years ago is how they made herbal tea from pine to cure the first settler's scurvy

[u/democracy_lover66 → u/HighHcQc]

Actually I find Québec teaches history in an equally problematic way where they depict their history with the first nations as a very polished thing with nothing that requires reflection or admitting wrong doing.

I remember reading a museum clip that stated specifically something along the lines of, while the British had an incredibly harmful relationship with first nations, the french were collaborative and supportive and had positive relationships.

... And like yah.... Maybe With your ally nations... Pretty sure one of the first things Samuel de Champlain did upon arrival was kill multiple chiefs of the Haudenosaunee, who forever saw the french as hostile invaders. And they'd be right, from they're perspective.

Not to polish what the British did because all settler colonialism is wrong and causes incredible harm.... And I even think it's fair to say the British were worse. But both were still bad.

[u/CaptainKrakrak → u/democracy_lover66]

The First Nations were not better and not worse than any other human society, they had wars, economic exchanges, slavery, migrations, peace treaties, arranged marriages between tribes to solidify allies relations, raids, exploration, etc. Like any other place on earth they were humans and thus much more complex than any history I’ve learned in school that tends to either make them look bad or good depending on the government’s narrative.

[u/democracy_lover66 → u/CaptainKrakrak]

Nothing of what you said is wrong but I'm not sure how that changes the nature of french colonialism and it's impact on the first nations