[news] Quebec City to celebrate carnage, genocide & death?

Sat Jan 5 15:17:08 PST 2008

QUEBEC CITY WANTS TO CELEBRATE 400 YEARS  
ANNIVERSARY OF CARNAGE, GENOCIDE & DEATH  
OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.

MNN. Jan. 3, 2008. Some people have a twisted view of  
history. Josee Legault, who writes for the Montreal  
Gazette, complains that the 2008 New Years celebration  
in Quebec City was a disappointment.

Colonialism is a mental illness. Some can see this.  
According to Legault, Quebec's major artists were  
absent. If they were boycotting the event, they showed  
good sense. For the world to escape the "colonial disease",  
the most honest and sensitive artists will lead the way.  
They will break out of the delusion and find the vision  
needed to affect a cure. Healing is certainly needed here.

The illness that pervades colonial society and all of its  
agencies and institutions is plain to us, the Indigenous  
Peoples. We've been waiting for the rest of the world to  
wake up.

Legault seems to criticize Le Devoir for saying "the  
founding of Quebec City was an historical mistake".

Right on! What's to celebrate? Theft of our land?  
Vandalism? Plagues? Genocide? Complete denial  
of our existence? Establishment of twisted and diseased  
European social customs on our land? Pollution and  
destruction of our environment? We would have all  
been better off if the French and English had stayed  
home and cured their sicknesses instead of contaminating  
the rest of the world?

When Jacques Cartier arrived at the modern site of  
Quebec City in 1534, he found a beautiful stand of  
nut trees. The new arrivals behaved strangely.  
Cartier kidnapped Donnacona's sons! He must have  
known this was wrong. When he came back, they  
chopped down our nut trees to build a fort where they  
barricaded themselves. Weird!

Legault complains that the founder of Quebec City,  
Samuel de Champlain, "was all but ignored" in the  
celebrations. Let's take a look at this guy. He was  
a shameless promoter of colonialism, and a dangerous  
psychopath.

When he first saw the Mohawks he opened fire on them  
with his new toy, the 'Arquebuse'. He then declared a  
campaign of genocide to wipe every last one of us out.  
>From 1608 to 1635 he wreaked havoc on every part of  
Turtle Island that he could reach. In one of his campaigns  
he wiped out 30 of our villages. This was meant to  
support the French lie that our territory was "empty".

Did Legault expect a re-enactment of this carnage? If so,  
she's a blood-thirsty vampire!

According to Legault ignoring Champlain is "like the  
United States celebrating the by-centennial of the American  
Revolution without uttering the name of George  
Washington". She's right! George Washington is known  
to our people as the "Ranatakarias" - "destroyer of villages".

He ordered General Sullivan into our territory to destroy  
everything. They torched our longhouses, our barns, our  
agricultural equipment, thousands of fruit trees, bushels  
of grain, our corn, our beans and our squash. When the  
people ran out, they were shot. They brought down over  
100,000 of our people to almost nothing. The survivors  
fled to Fort Niagara.

The British were no better!!! They sent General Amherst to  
finish the genocide with gifts of small pox infested blankets.

Let's not kid ourselves, the aim of the American Revolution  
was to grab our land. The French allied with the Americans.  
The British made illegal agreements in Paris giving free reign to the "rebel" rabble to escalate the colonial land grab. Let's have truth before reconciliation.

Admission and acknowledgement are required before there  
can be healing! The arrival of the European "found'l'ings"  
at Quebec City marks the beginning of an era of an  
apocolypse. An apology is not enough. Colonial society  
has to admit the devastation to us and our environment  
that has now been destroyed to the point where survival  
of the human race is in question.

A few days ago the Montreal Gazette complained that the  
head honcho, Queen Elizabeth II, can't make the Quebec  
City bash. Are she and her handlers showing some good  
sense? This mindless nonsense is meant to stoke the  
colonial delirium and keep the public in a trance so they  
can keep being manipulated.

All it produces on 'St. Jean Baptiste Day' is a bunch of  
drunken yahoos, driving around with their radios at full  
blast, their stinking feet hanging out the windows and  
'fleur de lis' flags stuck in their gas tank. Who needs that?

The 400th anniversary of the colonial disorder should be  
recognized. We need a full confession, an exorcism,  
whatever it takes to cure and wake people from this crazy  
fantasy.

Quebecers and Canadians both need to stop being proud  
of genocidal maniacs. They need to stop celebrating the  
holocaust that plunked their ancestors on our land while  
killing most of us. They need to get the "pure laine"  
cobwebs out of their minds. Then we can examine the  
real character of our historical relationship.

Legault seems to think that "It's a pretty sorry statement  
that this anniversary cannot be seen and presented for  
what it is". We agree! She doesn't know our history. It's  
not Quebec versus Canada or Canada versus Quebec .

It's about theft, killing and lies. It's about colonial delusions.

The Quebec City celebration committee shouldn't listen to  
Legault. If they do, they might be temped to bring in a  
bunch of cabaret "Indians" from some "Indian" village  
wearing vinyl buckskins dancing to "Yankee Doodle  
Dandy". That goes for the "Willy Two Willies" and the  
"plastic medicine men" too. We've seen this kind of  
nonsense before. Now we have a smart new generation  
of indigenous youth who would never demean themselves  
this way.

Quebecers, Canadians and all residents of Turtle Island,  
it is possible to develop immunity to the colonial disease,  
to see history for what it was. 40 of the 50 U.S. states  
have indigenous names. So do Saskatchewan , Manitoba ,  
Ontario , Quebec , Nunavut and Nunavik.

To promote healing, an appropriate first move would be  
to restore the Indigenous names to every place on  
Turtle Island . Quebec already bears an Algonquin name.  
If you look at the word in French, it sounds like "kiss my  
ass" [cue, bec]. It's time to take the lies and profanity out of history. In other words, let's kill the ill[ness]!

Kahentinetha Horn  
MNN Mohawk Nation News

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