Sunday, June 15, 2014

Have You Noticed...

...so called First Nations are only too happy to use technologies invented by the "Whiteman" to promote their hatred? Here's a case in point:

Sharing Our Cultures With The World

Just the very existence of a webpage is one such example. But look at the various features highlighted on this website. It uses photographs (a Whiteman's invention) and it highlights only events and leaders from the early 1800's up to the present, yet we are constantly reminded they have been here "since the world began".  And maps galore, all created by the evil Whiteman. And horses, that didn't exist in the Americas until the Spanish arrived. Not to mention E-books and mobile devices, and YouTube videos.

On the homepage they feature links to Amazon where they feature books and videos. Hmmmm. It's "mission statement" (another Whiteman's idea) is to "share our cultures", but what they "share" is an idealized version, devoid of many aspects of Aboriginal history and culture that doesn't advance the cause. For example, there is no mention of slavery among the Pacific Northwest cultures, nor of the near constant state of warfare between various tribes, nor of conquest of one tribe and it's territory, by another; not to mention of those politically incorrect subjects of scalping (see The Unkindest Cut, or Who Invented Scalping? by James Axtell, first published in the academic journal, William and Mary Quarterly in 1980) and torture, as practiced by the Iroquois nor of germ or chemical warfare (see Poison Arrows: Native American Indian Hunting and Warfare by David Jones, University of Texas Press, 2006).

There's a heavy focus on the myth of aboriginal stewardship of the environment. The spelling is atrocious (take a look at how they spell orchestrate on the home page, for example: "orcestrate" or "Artic" rather than ArCtic..)

All told the website is a poorly designed, barely navigable, mishmash of angry platitudes.

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