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Assimilation, Exploitation & Discrimination: The Unenviable Fate of Canada’s Indigenous Peoples_我的网站

A |     Pope Francis’s July 24-29 tour of Canada included a long-overdue apology to Native Canadians for the Catholic Church’s central role in abuses perpetrated at the country’s network of residential schools.,The notorious boarding school system was funded and organized by Canada’s federal government and run by Catholic and Protestant churches. It oversaw the forceful and systematic assimilation, abuse, enslavement and even murder of Native Canadian boys and girls from the mid-19th to late 20th centuries. It was a particularly brutal and cruel, but by no means first or only, tool of oppression experienced by indigenous peoples during the European colonialists’ history in North America.,“I am here because the first step of my penitential pilgrimage among you is that of again asking forgiveness, of telling you once more that I am deeply sorry. Sorry for the ways in which, regrettably, many Christians supported the colonizing mentality of the powers that oppressed the indigenous peoples. I am sorry. I ask for forgiveness, in particular, for the ways in which many members of the Church and of religious communities cooperated, not least through their indifference, in projects of cultural destruction and forced assimilation promoted by the governments of that time, which culminated in the system of residential schools,” Francis said at the former site of the Ermineskin Residential School in Maskwacis, Alberta on July 25.,The pope assured his apology was “only the first step” of “a serious investigation into the facts of what took place in the past and to assist the survivors of the residential schools to experience healing from the traumas they suffered.”,Pope Francis Holds Mass in Quebec During Visit to Canada to Apologize to Indigenous Community28 July, 13:01 GMT,Assimilation,More than 150,000 Native children passed through the residential school system over its 160+ year history. Children were prohibited, often by physical punishment, from speaking their native languages, having their ancestors’ religious concepts replaced with Christianity, and facing their cultural traditions and social norms substituted for those of the colonialists.,The first experimental residential school was opened in Brantford, Ontario, in 1833, but the system only became a federally-mandated, national, industrial-scale tool of subjugation in the 1880s after Sir John A Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, ordered the commissioning of a report on the residential school system model being operated in the United States.,The report, entitled ‘Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds’, became the basis for Canadian state-church cooperation in solving the Indian “problem” by removing indigenous children from the influences passed down to them by their communities and family units.,© WikipediaIndian Residential School, (Fort) Resolution, Northwest TerritoriesIndian Residential School, (Fort) Resolution, Northwest Territories© Wikipedia,Along with forced assimilation, students were subjected to other forms of torment, including sexual abuse by priests and teachers, forced labor, and slavery. As of 2021, the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation has been able to identify 4,117 documented deaths of First Nations, Inuit and Metis children in residential schools. However, new graves continue to be discovered, and former Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner Murray Sinclair estimates that more than 6,000 children may have died in the residential school system over the period of its operation.,In his bombshell 2016 book “Murder by Decree: the Crime of Genocide in Canada,” writer and former United Church of Canada reverend Kevin Annett challenged the NCTR over its conservative estimates on the residential school deaths, detailing the commission’s suppression of eyewitness testimony and archival documentation, and estimating that the true death toll may have run in the tens of thousands. Annett documented how the system included a monthly “death quota” and involved the use of germ warfare, and believes that as many as 50,000 children may have perished in the residential school network.,Exploitation,Residential schools were by no means the first instance of settlers’ mistreatment of Canada’s indigenous population, with Britain’s victory against the French in the North American theater of the Seven Years’ War of 1754-1763 sealing their fate of subjugation and colonial land grabs, as well as the relentless and cynical exploitation of the most loyal tribes.,At the conclusion of the war in 1763, King George III issued a royal proclamation declaring all lands west of the Appalachian Mountains and the colonies of what would ultimately become the early United States as Native territories, outlawing their settlement or purchase by colonialists, and requiring treaty negotiations for any changes to the arrangement. In Canada –organized from the remnants of New France under the name ‘Quebec’, lands to the west and north of the colony were proclaimed Indian territory.,Centuries later, scholars continue to fiercely debate the correct interpretation of the proclamation, and whether it was meant as a permanent guarantee of Native rights to lands beyond the then-existent colonies, or a mere opportunity for colonists to catch their breath before continuing an aggressive push west.,© Photo"The British Governments in Nth America Laid down agreeable to the Proclamation of Octr. 7, 1763," Gentleman’s Magazine (London, 1763)"The British Governments in Nth America Laid down agreeable to the Proclamation of Octr. 7, 1763," Gentleman’s Magazine (London, 1763)© Photo,Even as colonists repeatedly broke the 1763 treaty’s terms throughout the rest of the 18th and 19th centuries through wars of aggression and by taking advantage of divisions within Native tribes through cunning and trickery, many Natives remained loyal to the Crown.,Perhaps nowhere was this better exemplified than in the story of Joseph Brant, an 18th-century Mohawk military and political leader who led his warriors in defense of the British Empire during the American Revolutionary War of 1775-1783, and whose efforts proved decisive in halting an American advance into what is now Canada.,In return for the loyalty shown by Brant and his fellow Mohawks, Quebec Governor Sir Frederick Haldimand promised that after the war, his people would be granted more than 8,090 square km of land around the Grand River Basin in southern Ontario. However, after the war ended in 1783, the settlers would gradually chip away at their commitments, with the Native-administered area now known as the Six Nations Reserve shrinking to just 183 square km of land, two percent of what Brant was originally promised.,Brant’s story was repeated in one form or another throughout the 19th century, and today just 0.36 percent of Canada’s total landmass has reserve status for its Native communities.,© Wikipedia / National Archives of CanadaJoseph Brant, watercolour by William ArmstrongJoseph Brant, watercolour by William Armstrong© Wikipedia / National Archives of Canada,Discrimination,Notwithstanding decades of recognition by successive governments of the historical injustices done to indigenous people, and lip service to improving their social and economic standing, Canada’s community of 1.67 million Natives continues to struggle with a broad spectrum of problems more typically characterizing countries of the so-called Third World than of a thriving, highly developed First World nation.,The Council of Canadians estimates that some 73 percent of First Nations’ water systems are at medium or high risk of contamination, with dozens of indigenous communities still lacking basic access to clean drinking water, despite billions of dollars in aid doled out by Ottawa every year to developing countries, and over a billion dollars in support sent to Kiev this year amid the Ukrainian security crisis.,Along almost every social indicator, from poverty and access to housing to crime, education, and healthcare, Native communities continue to rank below other Canadians. Nowhere is this exemplified better than in average life expectancy. While other Canadian men and women live on average to an age of 79 and 84 years, respectively, among the First Nations, Metis and Inuit, these figures drop to 72.5 for men and 77.7 for women.。

B |     由你来说： GTA 6泄露已持续一周，诡异的是泄露者CyberLeek的所有视频里只有男主Jason，备受期待的女主Lucia始终神隐。知名爆料人Tom Henderson公开发问：是因为游戏早期还没解锁Lucia，还是背后另有隐情？评论区瞬间炸出十几种理论——有人扒出泄露版本号仅为0.7.7，断定这只是个连剧情推进功能都被锁死的早期自由漫游测试包；有人怀疑Lucia前期根本不在可玩阵容里，预告片里她明明还在监狱；更激进的玩家直接喊出"这根本不是泄露，是R星自导自演的营销，Lucia会留在8月27日Netflix独家内容里压轴"。当所有泄露都精准地避开了女主，究竟是黑客能力有限，还是一场精心编排的饥饿游戏？     近日，知名游戏爆料人Tom Henderson在社交平台发文，针对GTA 6泄露事件提出一个关键疑问："为什么泄露者只玩Jason？是因为游戏早期阶段还没解锁Lucia，还是其他原因？"这条推文迅速获得超过70万次浏览，将玩家社区对"Lucia缺席泄露"的猜测推向了新的高潮。

C |     评论区涌现出多种截然不同的解读。支持"版本受限论"的玩家占据主流。有分析认为，泄露者手中掌握的只是一个早期的电脑端测试构建版本，区域和功能均受到严格限制，根本没有能力解锁Lucia或推进其他主线任务。更具体的证据来自对构建版本号的追踪——有玩家指出，从泄露画面中可以看到构建号仅为0.7.7，日期远至2025年2月，版本号为0.1.72，这意味着CyberLeek掌握的并非接近成品的完整游戏，而是一个被阉割过的自由漫游测试包。另一位玩家补充道："7次泄露，没有Lucia，没有任务，没有故事，没有结局，如果Rockstar真的不在乎，你们难道不觉得奇怪吗？"     关于Lucia为何不可用的剧情推测也层出不穷。大量玩家结合官方预告片内容分析，Lucia在故事初期很可能被设定为身处监狱，Jason需要推进剧情才能将她救出，因此在游戏前期的构建版本中根本无法操控她。有评论精准总结："内部预览构建可能只包含1到3个围绕序幕展开的故事任务。既然我们在两个预告片里都看到Lucia在监狱里，我猜测这个构建版本中的剧情只进行到她从监狱获释之前。"还有人提出更大胆的假设："如果Lucia根本不是可玩角色呢？"不过这一观点很快被反驳，因为此前已有泄露画面显示Lucia在成人俱乐部场景中出现过。然而，最引发争议的莫过于"自导自演论"。有玩家直接断言："这些泄露是精心策划的。他展示的内容量和Rockstar本会展示的内容量完全一致。"另一位评论者更是放言："这不是泄露，这是R星的营销手段。Lucia将在8月27日亮相。"支持这一阴谋论的人认为，所有泄露内容都恰到好处地避开了核心剧情和女主，既维持了热度又没有真正剧透，时机上还完美配合了即将到来的Netflix独家展示活动。    此外，关于CyberLeek真实身份的猜测也在持续。

D | 有玩家认为泄露者可能只是几个月前录制了片段的测试人员，并未掌握完整构建；也有人嘲讽其游戏水平低下，"也许他就是太菜了打不过任务，所以他的构建版本根本不让他玩到解锁Lucia所需的任务"。截至目前，Rockstar Games仍未对"Lucia缺席泄露"及相关猜测做出任何公开回应，其官方社交账号继续保持静默。你怎么看GTA 6泄露中始终不见女主Lucia？是早期版本锁死剧情，还是Rockstar精心策划的营销铺垫？欢迎在评论区分享你的看法。本文由游民星空制作发布，未经允许禁止转载。

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