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

 

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 400^th 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