PYSICALLY DESTROYING IT.
A recent front page headline in the National Post contained a picture with the heading 'Demolishing History'. It was quite sobering for me.
We know how the Progressive Left has worked feverishly to rewrite history so Up becomes Down, In becomes Out and Frontwards becomes Backwards. And sadly, by and large we the unwashed masses*have let them get away with it. *(their words...not mine and also used phrase...useful idiots).
Well they have now gone one further:
The Post story states in a matter of days, the Peace River Homestead located in the renowned Royal British Columbia Museum will be ripped off the face of this once proud country. The article reads: "Starting January 2, crews will start taking crowbars to life-size dioramas of a Peace River homestead, a Vancouver Island coal mine and HMS Discovery the flagship of British explorer George Vancouver." The reason given by the Museum's Pin-Heads is that this sacrilege is being done in the name of "decolonization".
Ranked as one of our Country's 'most-visited' museums it is now most likely to cease being so and for all the right reasons.
The fall-back position for the Museum is that they are 'doing this for the aboriginals' however B.C.'s First Nations have come out strongly opposed. They do however acknowledge that Museums such as this one need to be more inclusive and focus on their history too and in fact that is what the Province has been moving toward in recent years. They want to show how their lives 'intersected' with the lives of non-aboriginal without destroying the early presence of the latter.
This nonsense must stop.
Several years ago your mother and I went on a trip by car across Canada and when we returned we crossed the Alberta border and headed to Custer's Last Stand in Montana on June 25, 1876.
We were ready to hear of the daring do of Colonel Custer and his brave band of soldiers but were pleasantly surprised to have a young Crow Guide walk us through this most famous battle. This young woman was very reserved...almost shy but when she began to recall what had occurred that day so many years ago- she became animated. Proud even since it was her people who had defeated the undefeatable George Armstrong Custer the Yankee Hero of the Civil War.
She told us where Custer was at the end...where the rest of his officers were too but not only that ...she told us where the Indian Braves where ...their names and where those who were killed fell. White Crosses for the Army dead...Red Crosses for the Indians. It brought this famous battle to life in a way we never expected and it was all due to her.
Of note, Custer went headlong into battle even though his Indian Guides told him not to. There were other cavalry coming shortly to their rescue but Custer wanted all the glory himself. He paid the ultimate price along with over 260 troopers.
Crossing over to Canada, Chief Sitting Bull surrendered to North West Mounted Policeman Inspector James Walsh with but a handful of Mounted Police. That too is an important part of our history that should not be forgotten and it involved natives and non-natives alike.
As I See It...
'K.D. Bell'
