[quote=Pepperm1nts]
Fair enough. But I tend to have a little sympathy for the natives, given their lands were being invaded. It's like they just wanted to kill white people just because.
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If me and a bunch of other white guys piled into a pick-up truck and drove through town firing shotguns at Filipinos, people wouldn't be happy about it. Natives (mostly Metis, who didn't have that long of a history in the land anyway) did the same thing when settlers came by Western Canada, only instead of guns and trucks they used bows and horses.

There are people in this country, a large number even, that call Louis Riel a hero, then bemoan British involvement in Canada with the next breath on the basis of how violent and inhumane it was.