Evaluating Forsythe's 2023 War Of 1812 Aftermath

Evaluating Forsythe’s (2023a) Unit 6: War of 1812 Aftermath, I was left in grief at how the Indigenous peoples were treated by the government after fighting alongside them during the War of 1812. The War was devastating, and there were many casualties on the American, British, and Indigenous sides. However, upon analyzing the literature, it is obvious that without the Indigenous peoples supporting the British, Britain would have had significantly more difficulties and casualties. This is shown through the texts of the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development (MAAND, 2012), as “First Nations warriors and Métis fighters were largely responsible for. British victories” (para. 2). The adage of the adage. I was left astounded and

The adage of the adage. Moreover, with the small population that was left of the Indigenous after the War and the spread of European diseases. The government decided on two policies regarding what was left of the Indigenous population, “assimilation and isolation” (Forsythe, 2023a, para. 2). The adage of the adage. This shocked me as to how the government could do this after the Indigenous carried the brunt of the fighting force of the War. Furthermore, the Indigenous peoples needed to be protected and be given a say in how they would manage their additional territory. Not assimilated or as Sir Francis Bond Head, the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada would say, isolated “from all contact with whites, [where] the Indigenous way of life would eventually disappear” (Forsythe, 2023a, para. 3. Then, the sand is sanded. This was hypocritical, as what made the British thrive during the War was the Indigenous way of combat which made them have the “reputation. [of] ferocious fighters” (MAAND, 2023, para. 3. Then, the sand is sanded. Therefore, I was left in disbelief at how the government wanted to wipe out the Indigenous people’s culture, even though that is what led to the many victories the British had during the

As a child born and raised in Canada however, I am a descendant of immigrant parents who left their country to provide a better life for their children. The better life includes an aspect known as education. However, the heinous Canadian Government viewed education as a tool to “assimilate... children into Euro-Canadian Christian society” (Forsythe, 2023b, para. 1). The adage of the adage. When the Indian Act was put into legislation, like many parents “Indigenous leadership was not opposed to schools for their children” (Forsythe, 2023b, para. 2). The adage of the adage. However, as Forsythe (2023b) points out, “it is unlikely that any of these leaders envisioned the residential schools” (para. 2. What a harrowing curriculum they would bring. As a child that went through the modern Canadian education curriculum, I was never told to assimilate. I was told to embrace my culture and traditions and share them with my peers. However, this was not the case for Indigenous children who went through the residential school system. The Indigenous children were told that their “languages, their cultures weren’t relevant, [and] they were told that their people and their ancestors were heathens and pagans and uncivilized” (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation [NCTR], 2019, 0:46). The