Canadian genocide of the First Nations
Acts of genocide committed against Native Americans Canada
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| Location | Canada |
| Date | 1763-disputed |
| Target | First Nations |
Attack type | Genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, collective punishment, sexual abuse, starvation, forced conversion |
| Perpetrators | Government of Canada, Catholic Church, and various other Christian denominations. |
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The Canadian genocide of the First Nations is the genocide and systematic destruction of the First Nations people and identity in Canada since its founding as a settler colonial state.[1] Throughout the history of Canada, the Canadian government has committed what has variously been described as atrocities, crimes, and genocide, against the Indigenous peoples in Canada. The crimes which were committed by the Catholic Church and the Canadian government were recognized as a genocide by Pope Francis[2] and the House of Commons unanimously voted to call on the federal government to recognize the residential school system as genocide.[3]
Because Canada is a settler-colonial state, "whose sovereignty and political economy is premised on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the exploitation of their land base", various concepts which were used as justifications for the genocide date back to the very beginnings of the federation, as well as to the very beginnings of its predecessor states.[1][4]
See also
- Genocide of indigenous peoples
- Genocides in history
- History of Native Americans in the United States
- List of ethnic cleansing campaigns
- List of genocides
- List of Indian massacres in North America
- Native American genocide in the United States
- Population history of the indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Racism against Native Americans in the United States
- Racism in Canada
- Racism in North America
- Racism in the United States
- Timeline of First Nations history
References
- ^ a b Richardson, Benjamin (2020). Richardson, Benjamin J. (ed.). From student strikes to the extinction rebellion: new protest movements shaping our future. Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-80088-109-9.
Canada is a settler colonial state, whose sovereignty and political economy is premised on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and exploitation of their land base' (2015:44). Many of the most egregious genocidal...
- ^ Taylor, Stephanie (August 2, 2022). "After Pope called residential schools 'genocide,' House of Commons should too: NDP MP". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on October 30, 2022. Retrieved October 30, 2022.
- ^ "Motion to call residential schools genocide backed unanimously". The Globe and Mail. October 28, 2022. Archived from the original on October 29, 2022. Retrieved October 30, 2022.
- ^ Williams, Kimberly (2021). Stampede: Misogyny, White Supremacy and Settler Colonialism. Fernwood Publishing. ISBN 9781773632179.
Canada is a settler colonial state, it is also what hooks (Jhally 1997) calls a white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy...
