Settler Canada’s genocides: Sidney L. Harring, ‘”Shooting a Black Duck”: Genocidal Settler Violence against Indigenous Peoples and the Creation of Canada’, in Mohamed Adhikari (ed.), Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies, Routledge, 2019 | settler colonial studies blog

Settler Canada’s genocides: Sidney L. Harring, ‘”Shooting a Black Duck”: Genocidal Settler Violence against Indigenous Peoples and the Creation of Canada’, in Mohamed Adhikari (ed.), Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies, Routledge, 2019

06May21

Abstract: Canada has a foundational myth of a peaceful frontier, settled according to the rule of law. In this view Native people were protected by the Crown and the legal system and were peacefully incorporated into a now-thriving, multicultural society. This is in contrast to the many violent Indian wars of the neighbouring United States. On a broader scale, this is also held in contrast to the violence suffered by Indigenous peoples in other British colonial societies — Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. The end result in all these countries was, however, the same: Native people were forced from their land to live in poverty, their cultures destroyed, while white settlers became rich developing all this now-empty land.

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