Just a couple of new reasons why as anyone other than a white dude your life will suck more in the USA now.

@basilfawlty89 My great grandparents did the whole "pioneer" thing in a Red River cart following a Catholic priest around which from what little I can find would now give off culty vibes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_cart#/media/File:Red_River_Cart.jpg

It is likely because they never settled anywhere too long and their kids could "pass" that the indian residential schools were not part of my direct family history. Plenty of Metis kids ended up getting snatched too.

Unfortunately my great grandfather was actually very much the stereotype and a crook. Which is probably why my great grandmother dumped him somewhere along the trail and left without him. His reputation was bad enough though that when my mom's family was stationed in some of the same towns in the military that they should keep that branch of the family out of discussion with people in town.

@basilfawlty89 Oh and the same great grandmother also was a bootlegger in the 40s. 😂

@basilfawlty89 To give you an idea of some of what is going on here with indigenous people and the white majority can be equated to the South African TRC. In fact they even copied the Truth and Reconciliation name with the same flaws in the approach.