Diary of an Indigenous Journalist Audrey Redman Dakota First Nation These writings are taken from journals, documents, reports, commentaries, essays and stories about and by Indigenous people from 2000 to 2026 that reflect the past and present relationship between First Nations and Canada.
HOW TO STEAL FROM THE INDIAN
The following extracts are from a speech given by Terry Gambill at a conference on Human Rights at Tobique Reserve in New Brunswick in August 1958. In this speech he warned Native people about how this society goes about taking away the human rights of Native people…The art of denying Indians their human rights has been refined to a science. The following list of commonly used techniques will be helpful in “burglar proofing” your reserves, and your rights.
GAIN THE INDIANS COOPERATION.
It is much easier to steal someone’s human rights if you can do it with his own cooperation. So…
Make him a non-person. Human rights are for people. Convince Indians their ancestors were savages, that they were pagan, that Indians were drunkards.
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