{"product_id":"playing-the-indian-card-stephen-kent-roney-9781775267812","title":"Playing the Indian Card: Everything You Know about Canada's \"First Nations\" Is Wrong","description":"\u003cp\u003eEverything you think you know about Canada's \"First Nations\" is probably wrong: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. First Nations are not aboriginal or indigenous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Most Canadians have Indian ancestry; most Canadian Indians have European ancestry. The Indians are us--all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Life before contact was no peaceable kingdom. It was nasty, brutish, and short. We are blinded here by the romantic \"Noble Savage\" myth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. No land was stolen from the Indians. No Indians were harmed in the making of this country, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. There was no genocide of Canadian Indians; there was no attempted genocide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. First Nations had no special interest in or concern for the environment. They did not believe the physical world was real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. What we think is \"native spirituality\" was invented by non-Indians in the 1960s and 70s. Real Indians are Christian, and more devout than other Canadians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. The residential schools are a scapegoat. They were wanted by the Indians themselves, and there was nothing particularly wrong with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. There has been no hostility towards Canada's First Nations on the part of the majority population. Indians have almost always been revered. They have always had a good press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. There has been no attempt to force Canada's First Nations to assimilate. There has been no \"cultural genocide.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. What we think we do to help \"the poor Indians\" has been killing them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead the truth, based on the real evidence: mostly on original historical documents, recorded by those in first contact: explorers, missionaries, and the Indians themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Kent Roney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1775267814\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781775267812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen Roney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/20\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 498\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Stephen Kent Roney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43984269639935,"sku":"9781775267812","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cc96d6b2-e31e-4c69-8ef1-5ca67046a8fb.jpg?v=1683271421","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/playing-the-indian-card-stephen-kent-roney-9781775267812","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}