When people have facts, they present them. When they do not, they reach for slurs.
Calling Indigenous leaders “parasites” and dragging in the Epstein class is not courage, insight, or truth-telling. It is lazy hate speech. It is the language people use when they cannot build an argument strong enough to stand on its own.
If you have evidence against any specific leader, bring it forward. Bring records. Bring names. Bring dates. Bring proof. Indigenous peoples believe in accountability, and no leader is above the people. But attacking entire Nations, Elders, Chiefs, families, and communities with racist abuse is not accountability. It is cowardice hiding behind a keyboard.
And let’s be clear: the word “parasite” does not describe Indigenous peoples. It describes the colonial system that took land, outlawed ceremonies, stole children, broke treaties, extracted resources, and then had the nerve to call the survivors a burden.
Indigenous peoples are not the ones who created the poverty, housing crisis, trauma, or injustice imposed on our communities. We are the ones who survived it. We are the ones still raising children, defending the land and waters, rebuilding languages, restoring ceremony, working in every field, and carrying responsibilities that were never destroyed.
So no, I will not dignify racist insults as if they are serious arguments. They are not. They are the sound of prejudice running out of breath.
Bring facts, and we can talk. Bring hatred, and all you prove is the poverty of your own spirit.
( For the past three days, I have had the opportunity ( and enjoyed) to address a large group of Canadian racist relatives who responded to my Opinion Piece published by Russia Today
( RT).
My response above is to this one-" Nonsense, you are a paid-for troll by the chiefs (laziest parasites) who are equal to the Epstein class. " Phil lame.) LOL!
Question? What do you mean by " revive it? History happens only once; it never repeats itself. Accident makes sure that what is necessary happens only once- meaning in a unique way. I have a good sense. I feel floozy.
Yes, I understand what you mean. History does not happen twice in exactly the same way. Each moment is unique. Each wound, each choice, each person, and each struggle has its own place in time.
But when history is denied or buried, the same harmful patterns can return in new forms. The names may change. The language may change. The institutions may change. But the deeper forces — denial, domination, racism, erasure, greed, and fear — can reappear if they are not faced and healed.
So the point is not that history repeats like a machine. The point is that unhealed history continues to shape the present. It rises again through new situations until people finally have the courage to face it honestly.
That is why truth matters. Not to stay trapped in the past, but to free the future from carrying the same wounds in a different form.
Statement: Go to any reserve in Canada, and see a $100K Ford F250S parked outside their free houses. But never see these Fords revved up in the morning to work at the local mill or farm. But they go out at 10 AM to kill moose 12 months of the year. Try that as a taxpayer, Phil.
Response: Let’s slow this down and test your statement.
You say, “Go to any reserve in Canada.” Any reserve? There are hundreds of First Nations reserves across Canada, with very different conditions, economies, housing situations, employment levels, and treaty histories. So which reserve are you talking about? Which Nation? Which community? Which year? What evidence?
You say there are “$100K Ford F-250s” outside “free houses.” How do you know the truck was bought new? How do you know it was not financed, used, leased, work-related, shared by a family, or owned by someone employed in construction, forestry, oil, agriculture, trucking, or community services?
How do you know the house was “free”? Did you examine the household income, mortgage, rent, band housing policy, repair costs, overcrowding, or federal housing shortfall?
You say we “never” go to work at the mill or farm. Never? Did you sit outside every home, every morning, in every reserve in Canada, and track where every person went? Or are you turning a passing glance into a national accusation?
You say we go out at 10 AM to kill moose “12 months of the year.” Again, where is your evidence? Which province? Which treaty area? Which harvest law? Which conservation rule? Which court case? Which wildlife data? Or are you simply angry that Indigenous peoples have constitutionally protected rights that existed long before Canada existed?
This is the problem: your whole argument depends on exaggeration. “Any reserve.” “Free houses.” “Never work.” “Kill moose 12 months of the year.” These are not facts. They are slogans. They are designed to inflame people, not enlighten them.
A truck in a driveway is not evidence of laziness. A house on reserve is not proof of privilege. Treaty rights are not welfare. And resentment is not research.
If you want to talk about accountability, let’s talk. If you want to talk about housing, work, taxation, hunting, treaties, or government policy, bring real facts, and we can have a real conversation.
But if all you have is a stereotype dressed up as an observation, then the stereotype says more about you than it says about Indigenous peoples.
Statement: The most pampered indigenous tribes in the world are in Canada. They get free everything, pay no taxes and royalties galore from oil and pipelines, free dental and healthcare, university education, and, to boot, $40K USD each annually.
Never see a native working as a roofer or at McDonald's or Tim Hortons, and they travel first class on Air Canada and have 1⁄2 land claims on Vancouver Island. Spoiled brats crying for more and contributing nothing
Response: This is not an argument. It is a pile of recycled stereotypes pretending to be facts.
You say Indigenous peoples in Canada “get free everything.” Name the program. Name the law. Name the amount. Name who qualifies. Name the community. Name the source. Because repeating barroom mythology does not make it true.
You say First Nations people “pay no taxes.” That is false. The tax exemption under section 87 of the Indian Act applies only to specific property or income situated on reserve. Many First Nations people work off reserve, shop off reserve, run businesses, pay payroll deductions, fuel taxes, property-related costs, GST/HST in many situations, and income tax like other Canadians. The law is specific. Your claim is not.
You say they get “free houses.” Then explain why Canada’s own Auditor General reported that First Nations communities need 55,320 new housing units and repairs to 80,650 existing homes, with the housing gap estimated at $44 billion. That is not pampering. That is a national failure.
You say they get “free university education.” Again, false. There are funding programs, but they are limited, eligibility-based, and subject to availability. Indigenous students still face costs, waiting lists, gaps, debt, relocation expenses, and barriers like anyone else — often more. A support program is not a blank cheque.
You say “free dental and healthcare.” Canada has specific health benefit programs for eligible First Nations and Inuit people due to treaty obligations and longstanding service gaps. That does not mean every Indigenous person gets unlimited free care, and it certainly does not erase the serious health inequities created by generations of colonial policy.
You say every person gets $40,000 USD annually. Prove it. Show the statute. Show the federal program. Show the payment schedule. Show the audited source. If that were true, it would be one of the largest public expenditures in Canadian history. The fact that you throw it around without proof tells us everything.
You say you “never see a native working.” That is not evidence. That is prejudice. Indigenous people work in construction, roofing, forestry, fishing, mining, farming, trucking, health care, education, law, business, government, trades, restaurants, hotels, universities, and community services. If you do not see them, the problem may not be their absence. Maybe it is your refusal to recognize them.
You say Indigenous people have “half of Vancouver Island” in land claims. Land claims are not gifts. They are legal processes arising from unceded lands, treaties, title, and rights that Canada itself must address. Indigenous peoples are not “crying for more.” They are asking Canada to honor the law, the treaties, and the truth.
So let’s be clear: this comment is not research. It is not history. It is not policy analysis. It is resentment, exaggeration, and ignorance stitched together into a rant.
Bring real evidence, and we can have a real discussion. Bring stereotypes, and all you prove is that you would rather blame Indigenous peoples than learn the truth.
Statement: Funny…and here in Canada..even people like you proud commentators are lazy and find everyway to play the system through social benefits and welfare… The labour shortages led to bringing in foreign workers for at least over 15+ years that I’ve seen now and now the Canadians are complaining of foreigners taking over Canadian jobs 😂 such hypocrites you are… Yeah the natives deserve it . They have the balls to fight for their rights at least…what do YOU fight for…other than wokism and other nonsense. Yeah..our country Canada has gone downhill fast and it’s NOT because of indigenous people and it’s fight
against this government …but yourselves who are always in denial and can’t even know which identity you belong to other than the fake «diversity» by skin colour and appearances you claim to be proud of…give it up man..(or woman or it , or whatever the hell you are)
Response: This comment is a perfect example of confused anger looking for somewhere to land.
First, you attack Indigenous people. Then you attack immigrants. Then you attack “diversity.” Then you attack gender identity. Then somehow you claim Canada’s problems are caused by everyone except the systems that actually created them. That is not analysis. That is resentment wandering around without a map.
You are right about one thing: Canada has serious problems. Housing is broken. Wages have not kept up. Many working families are struggling. Corporations have too much power. Governments have failed ordinary people again and again. But blaming Indigenous peoples, immigrants, or people who are simply trying to live with dignity is not courage. It is distraction.
Indigenous peoples are not the reason Canada is in trouble. Indigenous peoples did not create runaway housing costs. Indigenous peoples did not design the temporary foreign worker system. Indigenous peoples did not hollow out rural economies, underfund public services, or hand wealth and land to corporations. Indigenous peoples have been fighting for land, law, language, children, water, and treaty rights long before most critics even understood what justice meant.
So yes, Indigenous peoples fight for their rights. They fight because treaties were broken. They fight because children were taken. They fight because the lands and waters were exploited. They fight because governments made promises and then tried to walk away from them. That is not entitlement. That is the backbone.
What is truly pitiful is watching people mistake bitterness for intelligence. Throwing around words like “woke,” mocking identity, and sneering at diversity does not make anyone brave. It only shows how little they understand about the country they claim to defend.
Canada did not go downhill because Indigenous peoples stood up. Canada goes downhill when people are trained to blame the wounded rather than confront the powerful.
Statement: Dear PHIL LANE JR. I'm of Chinese descent from Hong Kong and have lived in Canada since ‘89.
Good article.. I actually frequent RUSSIA annually, with friends all over the country, from various indigenous backgrounds there (so not just here in Canada).
My partner’s Cree, actually. My dear comrade and fellow citizen… Unfortunately, RT is also trolled by close-minded and brainwashed peeps. I’ve learned that there is little point debating with these narcissists full of cognitive dissonance… Some of whom may even be here trying to distort potential truths from this outlet to its audiences, so they could be swayed back to the Western conglomerates.
As far as I understand, Russia preserves its MANY indigenous cultures waaaaay better than in Canada. Indigenous languages here are largely distinct if not close to it.. Other than Inuktitut, and a few others such as Cree, Ojibwe, etc. BUT in Russia, as a percentage, various languages and cultures thrive far better than in Canada and America.
Reply: Thank you for sharing this. I appreciate your honesty, your lived experience, and the fact that you are speaking from relationships — not only from theory or ideology. When we have friends, relatives, partners, and communities across many cultures, we begin to see how shallow many public debates really are.
I also agree with your deeper point: when these difficult feelings are pushed underground, they do not disappear. They grow. They harden. They become resentment, racism, denial, and division. But when they are brought into the open, they can finally be examined, challenged, corrected, and healed.
My father used to say, in essence, that if we can feel it, we can heal it; if we can speak about it, we can begin to understand it. That does not mean we accept hatred or falsehood. It means we do not fear exposing them to the light of truth.
That is why these conversations matter. Some comments reveal painful ignorance. Some reveal propaganda. Some reveal fear. Some reveal real confusion. But once they are spoken openly, we can answer them directly — with facts, with history, with dignity, and with a vision beyond hatred.
Western media, Russian media, and all major media systems carry their own interests, filters, and blind spots. That is why people must learn to think deeply, compare sources, listen to lived experience, and not allow any government, corporation, or ideology to do their thinking for them.
The real question is not whether one country is perfect and another is evil. The real question is: where are Indigenous peoples truly respected, where are their languages protected, where are their lands and rights honored, and where are they still being erased or used for political purposes?
I welcome any sincere conversation about that. Indigenous peoples everywhere — in Canada, the United States, Russia, Asia, the Arctic, the Amazon, the Pacific, Africa, and beyond — deserve dignity, protection, and self-determination.
So yes, let these things come into the open. Let the racism reveal itself. Let the ignorance speak. Then let truth answer it. That is how healing begins.
Statement: Actually, Mr. Lane, the once stone age race, at any other time when confronted with the more advanced new settlers, would have subjugated the entire race of people and forced conversion. Instead, the natives were allowed to live on their land as they always had. Thier children were given a chance to be part of the modern world, and now that is being twisted into something that has yet to be proven after five years, the slaughter of hundreds of children. Where are the bones, Mr. Lane, the native? Oh, by the way, anyone born in Canada on North American soil is native to it, not just like your ancestors. Stop being so racist towards everyone.
And private jets to fly Chiefs like Lane to Vegas or Hard Rock Casinos (they own), where they enjoy the perks of the Epstein class. This guy Phil Lane is a total paid-off troll for the parasites he represents. Phil goes to a casino that you own and sees how many natives are sweeping floors or working as parking attendants. Nada. See the National Post articles by Conrad Black, where your trope states aboriginal schools were the victims of the missionaries, hey Phil; forensic evidence SVP. Nicht.
Response: Thank you for writing to me directly. I will answer directly.
Calling Indigenous peoples a “stone age race” is not history. It is an old colonial insult. Indigenous Nations were not primitive people waiting to be rescued. They had languages, laws, governments, food systems, trade networks, medicines, ceremonies, architecture, diplomacy, and deep ecological knowledge long before Canada existed.
It is also not true that Indigenous peoples were simply “allowed to live on their land as they always lived.” Their lands were taken. Their movements were restricted. Their ceremonies were outlawed. Their children were removed. Their governments were undermined. Their languages were punished. That is not freedom. That is colonization.
Residential schools were not a generous “chance to be part of the modern world.” The Truth and Reconciliation Commission documented a system designed to separate Indigenous children from their families, cultures, languages, and Nations. The Commission identified thousands of deaths in residential school records, and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation continues the work of identifying and commemorating children who died or went missing.
In Kamloops, the claim was never that a full excavation had already proven everything. Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc reported ground-penetrating radar findings indicating more than 200 potential burials, and the investigation has been described as ongoing and complex. Demanding “where are the bones?” ignores the fact that families and Nations have the right to proceed carefully, respectfully, and according to proper protocols.
And yes, anyone born in Canada is Canadian. But “Indigenous” does not simply mean “born here.” In Canadian law, the Aboriginal peoples of Canada are specifically recognized as the Indian, Inuit, and Métis peoples, with their existing Aboriginal and treaty rights affirmed under Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.
This is not racism against everyone else. It is true that Indigenous Nations were here first.
This comment is not evidence. It is a personal smear wrapped in racial contempt.
You claim private jets, casinos, payoffs, and “Epstein class” perks. Then prove it. Name the jet. Name the casino. Name the ownership record. Name the payment. Name the audited document. Name the source. If you cannot do that, then what you are spreading is not the truth. It is defamation dressed up as courage.
You say Indigenous people are not working in casinos, parking lots, hotels, restaurants, or service jobs. That tells me you are not looking very hard — or you are only willing to see Indigenous people when they fit your prejudice. Indigenous people work in every field: trades, tourism, health care, law, education, forestry, mining, governance, restaurants, construction, culture, language revitalization, environmental protection, and business.
Now let’s deal with the residential school denial.
You ask for “forensic evidence” as if the entire truth of residential schools depends only on one excavation. That is a cheap trick. The evidence of residential schools does not rest on one headline, one site, or one ground scan. It rests on survivor testimony, government records, church records, school records, death registers, cemetery records, medical reports, legal proceedings, compensation records, and the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Children were taken. Families were broken. Languages were punished. Ceremonies were attacked. Children died. Many were buried away from home. Some were never properly recorded. These are not “tropes.” They are documented realities.
If someone wants to discuss the exact status of a particular site, then discuss that site carefully. But do not use uncertainty around one investigation to erase the entire residential school system. That is not skepticism. That is denial.
And quoting Conrad Black does not make denial more intelligent. A columnist’s opinion does not outweigh survivors, archives, court records, church records, government records, and the national historical record.
So here is the standard: bring evidence, not insults. Bring documents, not racist slogans. Bring accountability, not fantasies about private jets and casinos.
If you want the truth, we can talk. If you only want to degrade Indigenous peoples and personally attack those who answer you, then you are not defending Canada. You are exposing the ignorance and bitterness that Canada still needs to heal.
Statement: If the Indians wanted, all us white folks could take ALL OUR TOYS and send the Indians back to the Stone Age where they were when we found them….
Response: This is not an argument. It is colonial arrogance.
Indigenous Peoples were not “in the Stone Age.” They had technologies, sciences, governments, legal systems, trade networks, medicines, agriculture, architecture, fisheries, navigation, diplomacy, spiritual laws, and ecological knowledge perfectly adapted to their lands.
And let us be clear: many of the “toys” you are bragging about were built from Indigenous lands and resources — timber, minerals, oil, gas, hydro power, rivers, fisheries, and territories taken or controlled through colonization. Canada’s wealth did not come from nowhere. It came from land that was already home to Indigenous Nations.
Technology does not prove moral superiority. A person can have engines, electricity, guns, and computers and still be spiritually poor, historically ignorant, and morally lost.
Indigenous Peoples are not asking settlers to disappear. They are asking for truth, law, land, water, language, jurisdiction, and right relationship. That is not a threat to civilization. It is a call to finally become civilized in the deepest sense.
The truth is simple: you can keep your “toys.” Indigenous Peoples are rebuilding something far older and stronger — identity, sovereignty, culture, language, ceremony, and responsibility to Mother Earth.
Question: What is the law of negation of negation and the law of war of the (or unity) of the opposites? Read it, then stop, then move on.
Yes, I understand what you are saying. History does not repeat itself exactly. Each event happens once, in its own unique time, with its own people, causes, choices, and consequences. But the deeper patterns of history can return when they are not understood, healed, or transformed.
That is where the law of the unity and struggle of opposites becomes important. Every society carries contradictions within it: truth and denial, justice and oppression, memory and forgetting, healing and harm. These opposites exist together, and their tension creates movement. If the contradiction is ignored, it deepens. If faced truthfully, it can become a source of transformation.
The law of the excluded middle also helps us understand this. A painful history cannot simply be erased or buried. It must first be confronted. The false story must be negated. Then the wound itself must be transformed into a higher truth, not revenge, not denial, but healing, justice, and a new relationship.
So when we speak about history, we are not trying to live in the past. We are trying to stop the unhealed patterns of the past from shaping the future. We face history so that humanity can move beyond denial into truth, beyond oppression into justice, and beyond division into a higher unity.
Statement: That is the real movement: not repeating history, but transforming it. Every country in the world is built on lands that belonged previously to somebody else. That’s the nature of life. Natives are the most useless and corrupt people in Canada. Yes, there are many who work, pay taxes, and are honest citizens, but they do it precisely because they don’t want to have anything to do with the corrupt and substance-abusing natives on the reserves.
Before the Europeans civilized them, the natives constantly waged wars, kidnapped their women and children, tortured their prisoners for days, and sometimes practiced cannibalism. And they could count to ten, that’s where their science ended.
There are native testimonies that say that residential schools were the best part of their lives. But these testimonies don’t get through the liberal propaganda.
Response: This comment is a good example of how racism tries to protect itself: it admits a few Indigenous people are decent, then uses that tiny admission as permission to degrade the rest.
Saying “some are honest citizens” does not erase calling Indigenous peoples “useless,” “corrupt,” “substance abusing,” and uncivilized. That is not balanced. That is prejudice with a small disclaimer attached.
Yes, human history includes migration, conquest, conflict, and displacement. No serious person denies that. But that does not excuse broken treaties, stolen children, banned ceremonies, imposed starvation policies, land theft, forced removals, and the deliberate destruction of languages and governance systems. “Everyone did it” is not a moral argument. It is an excuse for avoiding responsibility.
And the claim that Europeans “civilized” Indigenous peoples is one of the oldest colonial myths in the book. Indigenous Nations had laws, diplomacy, trade networks, agricultural systems, ecological knowledge, spiritual traditions, architecture, medicine, astronomy, governance, family systems, and international relations long before Canada existed. The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Maya, the Inca, the Anishinaabe, the Dakota, the Cree, the Coast Salish, the Inuit, and countless other Nations were not empty-minded people waiting to be made human by Europe.
Were there wars among Indigenous Nations? Yes. Were there harsh practices in some places and times? Yes. That is true of every civilization on earth, including Europe, whose history includes crusades, witch burnings, slavery, torture chambers, inquisitions, genocides, world wars, concentration camps, colonial massacres, and industrial-scale killing. So let’s not pretend Europe arrived carrying pure civilization in one hand and moral innocence in the other.
The statement that Indigenous people “could count to ten and that’s where their science ended” is not only ignorant; it is absurd. Indigenous peoples developed sophisticated knowledge of agriculture, land management, medicine, navigation, engineering, weather patterns, animal behavior, astronomy, food systems, architecture, and governance. Much of the world still depends on Indigenous-developed foods, medicines, and ecological knowledge.
As for residential schools, yes, a small number of former students have said they had some positive memories. No one has to deny their personal experience. But individual positive memories do not erase the system itself. The residential school system was created to remove Indigenous children from their families, languages, cultures, and Nations. That is not “liberal propaganda.” That is documented Canadian history.
Some children may have found a kind teacher, a safe meal, or a friend within a harmful institution. That does not make the institution good. A prison can have a kind guard. That does not make imprisonment justice.
The real issue here is not the truth. The issue is selective memory. You want every harsh story about Indigenous peoples treated as proof of their inferiority, while every documented crime against Indigenous peoples gets dismissed as propaganda. That is not history. That is bias.
If you want a serious conversation, bring serious evidence and apply the same moral standard to everyone. But if your argument depends on calling whole peoples useless, uncivilized, corrupt, and inferior, then you are not defending truth. You are defending racism.
Statement: Jews are the mechanism behind the current attempt at land grabs in BC, take a look, it’s always the same.
127 people were awarded the title to Nootka Island and everything in, on, and under it three weeks ago. 127 people who never lived there, the island is uninhabited to this day. The title was determined by traces of peeled bark, done by whomever, whenever.
Now watch and see where the money goes
Response: This is antisemitic conspiracy thinking mixed with misinformation about Aboriginal title.
First, dragging “Jews” into a First Nations land-title case is not evidence. It is bigotry. If someone has a legal argument, make it. If someone has evidence of corruption, produce the evidence. But blaming Jews as a hidden “mechanism” behind Indigenous land rights is just old-fashioned antisemitism wearing a new mask.
Second, this was not a secret land grab. It was a court case. The Nuchatlaht Nation went through the Canadian legal system and won recognition of Aboriginal title over part of Nootka Island because the court found they met the legal test. That is not theft. That is law.
Third, Aboriginal title is not based on one random piece of peeled bark. Courts look at evidence of occupation, use, governance, continuity, history, archaeology, oral history, and relationship to territory. Culturally modified trees can be one form of evidence, but pretending the whole case was decided by “some bark” is dishonest.
Fourth, saying “only 127 people” is irrelevant. Rights do not disappear because a Nation has a small population today. Many First Nations were made small through disease, displacement, colonial violence, residential schools, child removals, land loss, and imposed poverty. You do not get to damage a people and then use the damage as proof they have no rights.
Fifth, saying the island is uninhabited today does not erase Aboriginal title. Many Indigenous territories were emptied, restricted, logged, occupied, regulated, or economically controlled by colonial systems. Title is not erased because people were pushed away or prevented from living normally on their lands.
And finally, “watch where the money goes” is just insinuation. The money and benefit should go to the Nation, its families, its children, its language, its housing, its governance, its stewardship, and its future. That is what justice looks like.
This case is not about Jews. It is not about communism. It is not about a scam. It is about a First Nation using Canadian law to prove what it has always known: this is their territory, their responsibility, and their future.
If people want to debate the case, debate the law and the evidence. But antisemitic conspiracy theories and anti-Indigenous resentment are not facts.
Statement: Apparently, you haven’t heard how England, and by. The extension of Canada gave the greatest Indian tribe in North America…THE HAIDA NATION…BLANKETS,…. FULL OF SMALLPOX….. THE HAIDA NATION WENT FROM 15,000 INDIANS TO 2500 OVERNIGHT……… WE DIDN’T KILL THE INDIANS…. OH YES, WE DID…. BUT THE INDIANS ALSO KILLED US WHITE GUYS… did you ever hear of the Boston massacre….. And how the Indians got their first horse and gun…. Was by coming in the middle of the night, sneaking into the house, killing the people that lived there, THEN STEALING THE HORSE AND THE GUN….INDIANS…ARE THIEVES…big time.
Response: This story is badly distorted. The Florida site being described is almost certainly Windover Pond, near Titusville, Florida. It was not discovered “this year.” It was discovered in 1982, when a backhoe operator uncovered ancient human remains in a peat pond during construction work. Archaeologists later found the remains of more than 160 individuals dating roughly 7,000 to 8,000 years before present.
But here is the key point: Windover was not a massacre site. PBS/NOVA describes it as a community cemetery, not a dumping ground for murdered people. The skeletons showed few signs of violent death. These were carefully buried people, not Europeans killed around a campfire and thrown into a pond.
The claim that these people were “European” is also not supported by serious archaeological evidence. That is usually tied to fringe claims like the Solutrean hypothesis, which argues that ancient Europeans populated North America. That theory has been widely rejected by mainstream archaeology and genetics. The Windover people are generally understood as an ancient Indigenous population of the Americas, not a lost European colony.
There is also no evidence for the campfire story, no evidence that “Indians showed up and killed Europeans,” and no evidence that this site proves Europeans were in Florida first. That is pure invention.
So let us be clear: Windover Pond is an extraordinary ancient burial site. It shows that people lived in Florida thousands of years ago, with care, community, burial practices, woven textiles, tools, medicine, and social life. It does not prove that Europeans were there first. It does not prove that Indigenous people murdered Europeans. It does not erase Indigenous history, title, or belonging.
This is how misinformation works: take a real archaeological discovery, add false claims, then use the distortion to attack Indigenous Peoples.
The truth is much simpler: Windover is evidence of ancient human life in Florida, not evidence against Indigenous Peoples.
Statement: You know, Russia owned Alaska before they sold it to the USA, right? You know they killed entire villages, right?
We didn’t murder any in Canada, unlike Russia and the USA.
Only in Newfoundland were natives killed, and it wasn’t part of Canada at the time.
Statement: Sad Russian media find a five-dollar Indian to write an article about the indigenous of America. If Russia knew its own treaties with the creoles, then they would not be involved in racial inaccuracies and propaganda
Response: The phrase “five-dollar Indian” is not an argument. It is a racial insult.
If someone disagrees with an article, they should deal with the facts, the history, and the law. Calling an Indigenous person a paid token does not prove anything. It only shows contempt for Indigenous voices when they refuse to stay silent.
And yes, Russia also has its own colonial history with Indigenous Peoples, including in Alaska and Siberia. That should be discussed honestly, too. No empire gets a free pass, not British, Canadian, American, Russian, Spanish, French, or any other. Indigenous Peoples have suffered under many colonial powers.
But Russia’s history does not erase Canada’s history. British Columbia was still built on Indigenous lands. Canada still has treaty obligations, Aboriginal title, residential school history, missing children, language suppression, and unresolved land questions. Pointing at Russia does not make those truths disappear.
So let us be clear: Indigenous Peoples are not propaganda when they speak for themselves. They are not “five-dollar Indians” because they tell truths some people do not want to hear. They are Nations, families, Elders, Survivors, knowledge keepers, and original peoples of these lands.
If people want to challenge the article, bring facts. Racial slurs are not facts.
More interesting dialogues to come.