The Dirty Old Indian MY CANADIAN HERO

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(246 246 246 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>High and unequivocal praise for Mike Mountain Horse an inspiring and courageous Canadian who was buried for four days and wounded three times in World War I. After his service he was elected a minor chief of his tribe and elected a president of a local railway union - an astounding combination for his era.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>Official Indigenous discrimination and separation in Canada continues. It is perpetuated by </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>The Indian Act</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)> and by Section 33 of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>The Charter of Rights and Freedoms.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>Substantial separation started with Indian Reserves and Indian Residential Schools in 1883. It is repeated by things like a separate Remembrance Day for Indigenous soldiers; Indigenizing university (a goal of Mount Royal University Calgary); and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>Truth & Reconciliation</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)> (one hand clapping).</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>The consequence of official discrimination is a cultural calamity. Open and beneficial discourse often taken for granted are threatened by parliament considering things like 'criminalizing denial. Public influence leaders speak against such legislation. In England the world-famous actor Mr. Bean in an address to Parliament said that if offending someone were criminalized he would be in jail many times over.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>Laws regulations and programs the purpose of which is social engineering like that for Indigenous too often result in loss of personal responsibility. They become racial crutches that substitute for personal responsibility for success or failure.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>Mike Mountain Horse needed none of these crutches. In World War I he was wounded three times once buried by a shell explosion for four days. He was elected a minor chief of his tribe while being elected president of a local railway union - an astounding achievement for his era. A school is named after him.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(85 85 85 1)>Canada needs more like Mike Mountain Horse. He lived the beautiful image the world has of Canada.</span></p>