The plight of the Aboriginal girl is one of the saddest situations - seems, so often, that so many of the children, particularly on reserves, but also elsewhere - have always been sexual & physical victims of their own people, as well as Christian organizations & political interferences .

The following is just an example of the respect a recent victimized girl received from her own people. God forbid, if the Canadian Indians get their right to full self-government, that this type of behavior & sexism still continues.

North American Indian

Hollywood constructed the violent image of the Native Americans, all the while portraying the European land taking their land as peaceful & civilized. That is the image so many still believe today. The common portrayal is the Indians  cold bloodily murdering innocent Europeans from their horses - murdering or taking children & raping the white women.  So-called great white moments surface years of western movies & books - cowboys shooting down the bow & arrow armed savages from a distance.  The resisting North American Indians, using their bows & arrows against the European invading challengers, using rifles, resulted in a one-sided view in which western white history exonerates itself in the taking of many millions of these defenders' lives. The final result was that the Indians were savage terrorists, not land defenders, who deserved unmerciful deaths.
 

The following pic of this child's unfair destination is just one of the destinations of thousands of Aboriginal children yet to come. She, like all the other children, will be taken from her family at age 6 & spend the majority of the next 10 years of her life in a boarding school with out love of her parents & siblings in her life. If she speaks her own language she will receive a beating.  Her religion was against the law - she, like the rest of her people, were called redskins & beaten for practicing their faith. This cruelty by Christian Mission schools continued through the 1970's in the USA because it was against the law to practice Indian religion. They obeyed the White man or felt the sting of the stick & went hungry.

Christian boarding schools for Indian children

When the White & the NA Aboriginals first met, the Aboriginals were named "REDSKINS" & looked upon as animals. History shows that not only was there bounties on the Natives lives, but also so many that were killed were also skinned to make leggings & tobacco pouches.

The following, found on the web, is a statement from Major Scott Anthony [First Colorado Cavalry, before the United States Congress], P. 27 of the "Massacre of Cheyenne Indians" at Sand Creek, a report on the conduct of war [38th Congress, 2nd Session, 1865]. "There was one little child, probably three years old, just big enough to walk through the sand. The Indians had gone ahead, and this little child was behind following after them. The little fellow was perfectly naked, traveling on the sand. I saw one man get off his horse, at a distance of about seventy-five yards, and draw up his rifle and fire-he missed the child. Another man came up and said, 'Let me try the son of a bitch; I can hit him.' He got down off his horse, kneeled down and fired at the little child, but he missed him. A third man came up and make a similar remark, and fired, and the little fellow dropped."

A Native American woman of the California area relates her childhood experience, 18th century [The Native Americans, Turner Publishing, 1992] - "About ten o'clock in the morning, some white men came. They killed my grandfather and my mother and father. I saw them do it. I was a big girl at that time. Then they killed my baby sister and cut her heart out and threw it in the brush where I ran and hid...I didn't know what to do. I was so scared that I guess I just hid there a long time with my little sister's heart in my hands."

An interesting site on the plight of days of old can be found at http://www.rosecity.net/tears/.

A mass grave of 146 killed at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, USA December 29, 1890
who died because of the color of their skin & their religion.

"... every redskin must be killed from off the face of the plains before we can be free from their molestations. They are of no earthly good and the sooner they are swept from the land the better for civilization... I do not think they can be turned and made good law abiding citizens any more than coyotes can be used for shepherd dogs" - Major John Vance Lauderdale, surgeon US Army,1866. Attending physician at Wounded Knee Massacre; Green, Jerry, After Wounded Knee, [Michigan State University Press, 1996]

"BOTH BEING BEASTS OF PREY, THO' THEY DIFFER IN SHAPE." - George Washington, President of the United States of America [Stannard].  He waged a personal war of genocide instructing Major General John Sullivan in 1779 to hunt the Mohawk like wild animals and to: "Lay waste all the settlements around... that the country may not be merely overrun but destroyed," urging the general not to "listen to any overture of peace before the total ruin of their settlements is effected." Sullivan did this reporting he had, "destroy[ed] everything that contributes to their support" turning "the whole of that beautiful region from the character of a garden to a scene of drear and sickening desolation." Washington's troops amused themselves by skinning the bodies of Indians "from the hips downward, to make boot tops or leggins." - Anthony F.C,. Wallace, the Death and Rebirth of the Seneca [Knoph, 1979].

Unable to secure dogs to do the work General Amherst distributed blankets among the Shawnee, Mingo and Delaware. These infected blankets were purchased from Jews, Levy Andrew [Levy] in association with David Franks and family of Philadelphia who were the leading Jewish supplymen in North America. [source, Sharfman, Harold. Jews on the Frontier. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1977., also The Nation of Islam, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews. Vol. 1.]

The result of General Winfield Scott, at the direction of President Andrew Jackson, was that was 4,000 Cherokee children, women & men died when they were forced to go to Oklahoma.   Private John G. Burnett, Captain Abraham McClellan's Company, 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Mounted Infantry - Cherokee Indian Removal 1838-39
"I saw the helpless Cherokees arrested and dragged from their homes, and driven at the bayonet point into the stockades. And in the chill of a drizzling rain on an October morning I saw them loaded like cattle or sheep into six hundred and forty-five wagons and started toward the west....On the morning of November the 17th we encountered a terrific sleet and snow storm with freezing temperatures and from that day until we reached the end of the fateful journey on March the 26th 1839, the sufferings of the Cherokees were awful. The trail of the exiles was a trail of death. They had to sleep in the wagons and on the ground without fire. And I have known as many as twenty-two of them to die in one night of pneumonia due to ill treatment, cold and exposure..."
 

1930 United States of America

An example of steadily being forced off their lands: -- In the early 1850s, the Lakota began to feel the pressure of the white expansion into the Western United States. Sitting Bull did not participate in the resistance In 1863 the settlers threatened the Hunkpapa hunting grounds & Chief Sitting Bull & his people resisted them. The war ended with the treaty of Ft. Laramie in 1868, but the discovery of gold in the Black Hills, sacred land, caused great tensions. White solders were sent to protect the gold prospectors. Shortly afterwards General George Armstrong Custer & a regiment of the seventh cavalry attacked the seven bands of the Lakota Nation along with several families of the Arapaho & Cheyenne. The attack was in violation of the treaty. Every white soldier was killed that day at Big Horn along with a few Native Americans.

THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN IS A DEAD INDIAN - very interesting reading from http://www.utas.edu.au/docs/flonta/DP,1,1,95/INDIAN.html.

Much of what has been written came from  http://www.iwchildren.org/redskinhate.htm.

http://www.bloorstreet.com/300block/aborcan.htm is a highly recommended site for Aboriginal knowledge