Just get over it? Huh, maybe the rule of law doesn't mean anything to you. Maybe the Constitution doesn't mean anything - but it doesn't feel that way to me. Those treaties mean something. Look it up. Then we can talk about "getting over it".

Congrats to my northern brothers and sisters on a job well done. I do have a "bone to pick" though with the idea that "in the beginning things went well" following Columbus coming here. He was anything but hospitable to the Taino and other Caribbean natives. He quickly started engaging in genocide against those who, he wrote, were among the nicest, most sharing and welcoming people he had ever met.

To the publishers of this video, "Why don’t you people just get over it? Well, umm…. Hello?" Columbus came in 1492 in the ship the Santa Maria and 'Things were not so bad" are these video publishers really serious when they make such a foolish public statement!

This is awesome! Its too bad most non-native people in America are either in denial or still maintain a supremacist attitude towards original indigenous peoples. This is a simple and creative approach toward bridging differences through educating non-native people. I am proud of my aboriginal people of the north!

For the commentators David and Chief Pedro Torres below as well as any others concerned about the partnership relationship described in the video, it is important to note that this is from Canada and is talking about the Mi'kmaq and the French trading together and building peaceful communities. The atrocities by Columbus and others are not to be ignored, but they were not the context for the comment in the video about the positive early relationship. Also, Chief Torres, the "why don't you people get over it?" is what we hear from newcomers and what the video is answering, not the point that is being made.

This is what we in America need to do...a reconsiliation

This is excellent. Aboriginal people here in the US should do this too. I shared this video. Great job!

Cry me a river .... With free education "$2000 less per student" what a joke you should see the new school that was built ON RESERVE ,no taxes. more government assistance than ever before and may I say more than your average Joe ,Grants,Progames,support my question is. WHAT more do you want........

Reconciliations sounds nice, but first you have to get one half of this issue to admit its wrongdoings. It's been my own experience that you can't hold your breath and wait for this - it will be a long time coming. That said, I'm amazed at the parallels between how America treated Natives and how Canada treated Natives. One thing I'm NOT surprised at is the number of assholes who think we're getting MORE than we deserve (looking at CRYMEARIVER below). They take and take and take and STILL have harsh words for a people that have done nothing to them. If we could just get rid of the assholes and idiots in this world our lives would be so much easier!

Get over it? We NEVER will those of us who know OUR histories. We will ALWAYS consider the Europeans & their subsequent successors, the American government, among others, who invaded & stole OUR lands as land thieves, murderers of OUR ancestors & destroyers of OUR way of life we enjoyed for thousands upon on thousands of years. ......................................................................................................................... Would you "get over it" had your peoples way of life been almost destroyed & in some cases, completely wiped off the face of the earth? I think not. Karma has a way of equalizing things I find. Just look around yourselves at all the chaos going on all over the earth, all the strange weather & more earthquakes, pestilence, droughts, decay in morality & "modern" society, wars & societal unrest all across this planet. Coincidence? Some agree & some do not. The Creator & Mother Earth have ways of getting its inhabitants attention one way or another when they have had enough of the evil of the human race.

TWO BEARS GROWLING: Maybe Wovoka's dream is coming true? May they take all the apples with them.

Amen, Michael Madrid! So many take & never give back. These egotistical, self-centered, greedy SOB's are never filled with enough of anything. They are soulless creatures whose eyes are blinded & ears are deaf. This sort has no cure but to their own demise. ......................................................................................................................... The next sort are those who have been seduced & deceived by these web weavers of lies. These folks CAN be saved from themselves IF they are willing to open their ears & listen to the truth & open their eyes when they are shown the truth. We can help those unfortunate ones if given the opportunity. ......................................................................................................................... We haven't been "given" anything, instead, we have been stolen from & we are STILL waiting for those hundreds of treaties to be lived up to by those various governments who signed them as well. If anything, we are owed untold hundreds of billions more than we will ever see paid to our many People all across Turtle Island.

Hey "crymeariver" who do you think you are! You have NO idea what US natives endured, Government stealing land, wine , women and our song! You are on OUR Land, remover yourself with a attitude like that, how do you sleep, and why wake in the morning. HAVE A GOOD DAY! :D

I'd never heard the "just get over it" meme quite as much as when I began engaging people on YouTube over the R*dskins controversy. It's strikes me as odd that those who ask us, "why don't you just get over it," would NEVER think of saying that to Jews affected by the holocaust.

I am 1/8 Cheyenne! I always held that heritage more then the other! This country set the record above Germany in lives taken! For whole tribes no longer exist cause of the invasion of the White man into our country!

I think the video is very well done, it is informative and direct. The history of the America's has been brutal, inhuman and monstrously cruel. Divine law was rejected and man made laws were applied to benefit only the occupiers and was used as sword against the Indigenous populations throughout the continent. It is painfully sad how the Indigenous nations were torn in unthinkable ways. A veritable paradise as beautiful as any, a reality of heaven on earth. One observer noted of an Indigenous community, 'the people had few possessions, they shared everything, they enjoyed each others companionship and were happy. Descending upon it with determination and full ambition, the occupiers have sewn wounds deep and left the Indigenous Nations with an unnatural poverty and despair of life without home or loved ones. Such a magnificent beauty here that most never got to see, it had long been torn down. Water was heavily polluted. dark and smelled foul, where previously it was described as "crystal clear" and "pure". With all the life pushed out, even the spirits had to leave where they loved being. So much of it is shocking; the overwhelming pollution in the air, water and soil, the high levels of cancers and such massive destruction of habitat like that which has occurred in Alberta. How many thousands of years it took for the soil to be there in all its composites and the endless cycle of migrating herds of elk and wolves and other beings that made their journeys across land which is now a crater of death. It seems impossible that such ignorance and arrogance could exist to do these things. There seems to be a feverish pitch with the new destruction; massive loss of natural habitat from mining, contamination of ground water, whole rivers destroyed through leakage of contaminates, oil spills in the ocean that gushed for months, the nuclear waste that has been pouring into the ocean for five years now, derailed rail cars with gases that have spilled and ignited, explosions at chemical plants, the increasing contemporary mass shootings in public places, wars that have no resolution but have a continuance, rates of cancer for adults and children keeping ahead - a reality of the evil one being here. It has been spitting in people's faces, a sticky material like cement that blinds them to love, harden their hearts and have a real hatred instead. The Earth can not tolerate all the death, and human being can not live in these inhuman ways. It is a difficult and painful time to be here in life while the storms increase and crisis. The cleansing is underway, life has to expunge the evil. The evil one has no reality of being among the living. It has a truth of death absolute but the people have kept it fed. It is hard to be brave and trust. I do very much need the evil one removed from the earth. Hopefully people will remember to take care of each other because humanity has to be cleansed of indifference and narcissism. Human beings were born to love and be loved. It will be lovely to see human beings together and happy as they once were so long ago.

Please do no just get over it. It takes much strength to act on what happened. These issues are not being presented in order to provide entertainment for us non-indigenous people. When we were visiting Inuvik our family was invited, unexpectedly, to be outside witnesses at the 4 day TRC. We also quietly wept through the TRCs in Duncan and Vancouver. As settler people we do not expect to ever get over what we learned. No one, regardless of their background, can rid their mind of major childhood trauma. Suggested reading: A National Crime. by John Molloy, University of Trent. The book is based on Canadian government documents.

On another story I posted the idea of sending america a bill or tax on the losses of over 500 + years of destruction. There has to be accountability. Form a union with educated people of white law. Sue them in court for non-payment of this bill. I'm white but dammit you were here first, we owe you, period.

It is a very callous and superficial thing to say, no one in their right mind would request someone to just walk away from tragedy like an Indie 500 car race and someone got a flat tire, ah shucks. The European land squatters and similarly, the Jews in Palestine - are a traumatized people. The Jews wish to exploit their trauma and see danger everywhere. The Europeans wanted to forget their past so they invented a new one, they're Americans! It has not worked for either group, they are pissing everyone off and they are detested. Both of them are literally playing out their history's by subconsciously recreating the conditions and pummeling people to death and life itself for the healing of that wound. Problem is they are not healing any wound, they are creating massive wounding and they are playing the villain. Rather than 'getting over it', they have become addicted and filled with fear. Neither one of them have the capacity to have their own nation or a leadership role; they both should be under a caretaker government to run their daily domestic affairs and any necessary foreign communications. They do not know what they do, their capacity to truly see themselves is absent. There are plenty of adjectives to describe their foul behavior but they are the ones who are blind to what they do. Every way they behave and act though was taught to them and it was a way they found to survive their inhuman conditions. It is helpful to remember ones history but it is no guarantee that the people will be well enough to understand the lessons in it - to not perpetrate such inhumane and cruel conditions on others. Some cancers are not curable and I don't feel any positive prognosis for either group - the illness is a result of trauma that has become so embedded into the DNA over an extended period of time. If either one of them really wanted to discover something - they could learn that much about themselves and then do everything medically and scientifically to find a cure so they could be a true people acting from a clear and cohesive conscious whole self that would have a sound and moral character. Jesus said 'forgive them for they know not what they do'. I agree, but that they have become so efficiently destructive and full with violence - there needs thought to arrest it for life's protection and well being.

The Jews didn't get over it! Because we have less gruesome photos and no film to record the greatest genocide ever should the evil be ignored? What is more evil? The generations that committed the atrocity of genocide & relocation of humanity OR the generations that hide & deny the atrocities?

When I was in high school, I did a report over oppression, and one of the topics was the oppression of the Native Americans, so I chose that. I learned that many Natives have referred to this time as the 500+ year genocide. I've never lived on a reservation, but I am half Omaha and adopted, so I thought people were overreacting, but now I'm doing a sculpture entitled the 500+ Year Genocide, which includes the United Nations' outline to what is considered a genocide, and it's sad that the American government won't admit that there is a genocide going on. No one will admit it because a lot of people don't know about it. I mean, in 1953, the American government issued the termination policy on the Natives. So yeah, I think Natives have every right to not 'get over it'. America has a sports team called the Red***ns and then people act like children when Natives say it's extremely disrespectful and horrible.

"why don't you just get over it," would NEVER think of saying that to Jews affected by the holocaust. because you going to jail for saying it, Michael

"why don't you just get over it," would NEVER think of saying that to Jews affected by the holocaust. because you going to jail for saying it, Michael

Whatever you say IVAN/tmsyr.

Well it was nice to see Indigenous people still being told what their own history was! Please ask the Arawak/Taino, Maya, Mexica and the other poor sods that got to experience columbASS's mis-pleasure if it was all happy super fun times?! He knew where he was going and why, well because europe had plenty of sea fairing First Nations peoples visiting and vice versa. (The American Discovery of europe, fabulous read, can get it off amazon for those who actually care and want to know the truth.) I suppose it is the typical US/Canadian natives (it feels dirty just saying that, apologies to the few out there that are actually switched on and don't allow european borders to label themselves) wetiko attitude that anyone south of texas is nothing like them and that they don't know what it's like! All that aside along with this extremely historically incorrect video I was amused by "crymearivers" comments. Obviously you were watching a different video crying a river about state handouts, whats the matter? They taking your lunch money off you? Lets put this into a context you might understand.... The government comes into your house, rapes and kills anyone there but you, moves you to the worst land they could find, poison your water, force feed you diabetes inducing food, try to kill you with disease and after all that and your still here (but this time people are watching) would they let you go free and work and live for yourself??? Well no! Because it will attract the wrong attention from the "they took our jobs crowd" (which I'm betting your a member), so instead they give you worthless handout so that all the possible anger out there from the... you guessed it! "durpa durpa jobs" crowd again! Are directed on to you rather than them. Victory all round! So please crymeariver as you have poisoned all the rest!