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RE: The Founding of Dodge City - Cow town
Not specifically @janton, but the Hudson's Bay Company, the major trading company in Canada at the time, was closely tied to the government and they bought all the hides, and the skulls were used as fertilizer and all the new settlers wanted them. The natives ended up signing treaties just to ward off starvation. That's all a condensed simplified version of the history, but the gist of it is, that no one cared about the natives here either!
More schools should be teaching this stuff; I'm surprised the schools in the States don't. You'd only have to show that photo to get the point across. A picture tells a story...that's for sure!!
howdy back again lynncoyle1...well were there Indian wars in Canada like we had here?
There sure were @janton, especially when they were being forced to leave their homes only to be 'contained' in certain areas/reservations etc. We had a 'wild west' of sorts, but it was always tamed because we had England's influence all the time too.
what did England do to contain it?
I meant that we had a huge English influence...needed to be more civilized that raging cowboys lol
so England DIDN'T do squat to help! it was the Canadian army like our army here. right? I'm just shocked to realize that I've never heard of any Indian wars in Canada, I didn't think of Indians being in Canada.
Oh we had plenty of Indians just like the US. There are a lot of similarities in our histories and plenty of differences, but like your civil war, we had one between the French and English that lasted for 7 years; hence the name, "The Seven Year War" haha. That's true though :)
and what was the U.S. doing during that time or was it before we were officially a country? is your family from there and way back? because you look like you have some Indian blood!
I think the US was in the thick of their own problems. My dad's side is from Belgium, my mom French Canadian (lots of Native blood in the French Canadians). She just let it "slip" recently that we did have some native blood in there somewhere, but has always seen it as nothing to brag about, and more likely something to be ashamed about. I was kind of P.O.'d to tell you the truth.
I still have no details from her, but you're not the first to say that :)