Claims of Aboriginal moral superiority over European savagery have no basis in Canadian history

Genocide. Ethnic cleansing. Forced assimilation. Slavery. Racism.

Mainstream history and traditional anthropology have demonstrated that these five phenomena are nearly universal aspects of the human condition. However, in contemporary academic, governmental, and media circles, these issues are often depicted as inventions that late 15th-century European colonizers used to subjugate, exploit, or exterminate Indigenous peoples around the world.

In Canada, this skewed portrait of the five sins of Westernization portrays the pre-contact New World as a veritable Garden of Eden inhabited by a myriad of aboriginal groups, mostly living peacefully with each other and in harmony with nature. The Indigenous “fall from grace,” if any, was precipitated entirely by the arrival of Europeans.

The de facto Book of Genesis for Canada’s Indigenous creation story is the 4,000-page 1996 Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RRCAP).

Among its many evidentiary shortcomings, it privileges unverifiable oral history over well-documented written accounts; makes no mention of periodic pre-contact hunger, starvation, or famine; only fleetingly refers to “violent death and cannibalism” and occasional warfare among the militaristic Iroquois; briefly comments on lethal conflict among the famously warlike Blackfoot; and buries pervasive........

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