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Quiet Canines Podcast
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Quiet Canines PodcastThe Mar-a-Lago Resort
Bolsonaro lost the election is Brazil and was ordered to surrender his passports. Apparently, he’s fled to the US. I imagine Netanyahu will have to do the…
Quiet Canines PodcastChristianize and Civilize
Republicans say we can’t elect Muslims because they want to impose Sharia Law. What about Indian Residential Schools? Prime Minister John A McDonald’s said…
Quiet Canines PodcastThe Paint That Never Faded
Ailton Krenak is an indigenous leader, environmentalist and writer. Born in 1953 in the state of Minas Gerais, in the Middle Rio Doce region. At the age of…
Quiet Canines PodcastBorrowed Blueprints
Did you know that apartheid South Africa borrowed Canada’s playbook? Both countries had large indigenous populations before European colonizers arrived. Both…
Quiet Canines PodcastBrazil Election Threatens Indigenous Peoples and Climate
Tomorrow’s election could be a catastrophe for indigenous peoples and the world’s climate. Voters in Brazil head to the polls to elect their next president…
Quiet Canines PodcastUncontacted Indigenous Groups: The Missionaries Still Hunting Them
There are at least 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups living in the world today, amounting to around 10,000 people. Most live in the Amazon rainforest. They…
Quiet Canines PodcastSlavery by Another Name
This law allowed white people to kidnap Native American children and turn them into slaves. This is the genocide you’ve never heard of. The year was 1850 when…
Quiet Canines PodcastBear Drum Surrounded by Eight-Pointed Stars
It makes me sad that this bear was destroyed. This is my cousin Allan Sylliboy. I’ll just read what he wrote: Today I am posting a Bear Drum surrounded by…
Quiet Canines PodcastEight Faces of Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore was built to foster national pride and tell future civilizations how America was built. That is not what Indigenous people see. The Fort Laramie…
Quiet Canines PodcastThe Silent Holocaust
You probably have not heard of the Holocaust that did not take place in Germany and did not involve Jewish people. That is why it is called the silent…
Quiet Canines PodcastAmerica Inspired the Nazis
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit quietcanines.substack.com Did you know that Adolf Hitler got his inspiration from America? Hitler…
Quiet Canines PodcastThe Talking Leaves of the Cherokee
This Indigenous man is the only person in history to create a system of writing from scratch by himself. What makes this even more remarkable, is that he…
Quiet Canines PodcastPete Hegseth’s Imaginary Holy War
The recent news about Pete Hegseth shows how history repeats itself. Hegseth wanted to livestream a military execution. He viewed this public cruelty as a…
Quiet Canines PodcastThe White House Columbus Cover Up
The White House created a website celebrating Christopher Columbus. Here is the truth they are hiding from you. On October 12 1492 Columbus landed on…
Quiet Canines PodcastWhite House Launches Christopher Columbus Website
The White House just launched a new website about Christopher Columbus. Whoever created it plagiarized century old propaganda to erase history. In 1893 the…
Quiet Canines PodcastWho Were the Real Savages?
Did you know that in 1578, Martin Frobisher held the first recorded Thanksgiving in Canada? There are many stories celebrating European explorers, like…
Quiet Canines PodcastThe Space Metal Pioneers
Twelve hundred years ago in the High Arctic, the Inuit mastered spaceborne technology by hand. All over the world, human history followed similar paths. The…
Quiet Canines PodcastThey Believed It Was a Mistake to Keep Vulnerable Populations Alive
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit quietcanines.substack.com Colonialism and eugenics go hand in hand. In 1927, the U.S. Supreme…
Quiet Canines PodcastThey Believed Native American Women Were Too Stupid to Use Birth Control
Chapter I Congress is finally condemning a dark chapter in American history. Lawmakers introduced a historic resolution to address the forced sterilization of…
Quiet Canines PodcastWaru Waru: Ancient Andean Climate Engineering
To celebrate national Hispanic heritage month, let’s talk about the ancient Aymara peoples. The waru waru system is one of the most amazing achievements of…
Quiet Canines PodcastEuropean Colonization of the Americas Killed So Many It Cooled Earth's Climate
Europe was in the early days of the Renaissance. At the same time, empires in the Americas sustained more than 60 million people. Then Christopher Columbus…
Quiet Canines PodcastStolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii
In the late 1890s, a missionary on Haida Gwaii discovered that Haida graves had been dug open. Coffins and bones were scattered everywhere because George…
Quiet Canines PodcastTHE SKELETON IN THE MUSEUM CLOSET
Hidden away for eighty five years, the tragic story of Minik, a boy who was said to have discovered his own father skeleton in a glass display case in the…
Quiet Canines PodcastHow the Arctic Changed the Science of Race
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit quietcanines.substack.com In May 1933, Nazi students burned thousands of books in Berlin. Among…
Quiet Canines PodcastThe Ultimate Prehistoric Transformation
Nine thousand years ago, Indigenous peoples engineered a crop that was man first and greatest feat of genetic engineering. Most crops like wheat and millet…
Quiet Canines PodcastThe Original Blueprint
Here is why Donald Trump and Elon Musk are so afraid of communism. The story starts in 1884 with the work of anthropologist Lewis H Morgan who spent seven…
Quiet Canines PodcastBird Poop Powered One of the Americas’ Greatest Ancient Kingdoms
Five thousand years ago the Andean people of Peru discovered something more valuable than gold. Countries eventually fought bloody wars over it. Six hundred…
Quiet Canines PodcastThe Bark of Empire
Deep in the Andean rainforest, indigenous peoples discovered a remedy that later became a major tool of European imperialism. The Quechua, Cañari, and Chimú…
Quiet Canines PodcastTruth Before Reconciliation
A masked group from Second Sons Canada staged an event on the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc reserve near the former residential school. They held a banner reading…
Quiet Canines PodcastThe Industrial Revolution’s Forgotten Beginning
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit quietcanines.substack.com Three thousand years ago, an ancient civilization engineered a secret…
Quiet Canines PodcastShe Is Defending Someone Who Burned People Alive
Anyone who defends colonialism is either ignorant or complicit. Spanish politician Isabel Díaz Ayuso praised Hernán Cortés as a visionary who brought freedom…
Quiet Canines PodcastThe Secret Genius of Ancient Andean Farmers
Seven thousand years ago, Andean indigenous farmers took a wild weed so toxic it could paralyze and kill you, and they transformed it into the most…
Quiet Canines PodcastWhat Does Language Have to Do with Indigenous Health?
When my mother chose not to teach my sister and me Mi’kmaw, she was trying to protect us from the racism she had endured. Years later, I began to understand…
Quiet Canines PodcastHe Prayed to Jesus to Save His Dying Crew
In November 1535, explorer Jacques Cartier and his crew were trapped in the ice near Stadacona, an Iroquoian village at what is now Quebec City. The men became…
Quiet Canines PodcastDeconstructing Colonial Myths
Tim Thielmann has served as chief of staff for Tara Armstrong and Dallas Brodie. He’s been doing the podcast rounds defending colonization, saying it was good…
Quiet Canines PodcastMonetize Racism in Canada
This guy should not be platformed. I watched two podcasts with Tim Theilman as the guest, talking about reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. On May 6, he…
Quiet Canines PodcastThe Choctaw Nation, Removal, and a Gift to Ireland
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit quietcanines.substack.com Indian Removal Some refer to this as the Trail of Tears. The Choctaw…
Quiet Canines PodcastEmily Murphy Was Progressive for Her Time. So Was Her Racism.
At the beginning of the 20th century, one of the most prominent female writers and social activists of the time was Emily Murphy. She wrote magazine articles…
Quiet Canines PodcastWhy Billionaires Fear Artists
What do Macklemore and Wounded Knee have in common? Quick recap: Macklemore says free Palestine on stage at an Ed Sheeran concert. Zionist billionaire Robert…
Quiet Canines PodcastThe Myth of the Primitive Race
These impressive structures predate the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge. But Australian Senator Pauline Hanson calls the people who built them the most…
Quiet Canines PodcastThe Native American Chief Who Drove Out Spanish Colonists and Nearly Expelled the English
The Ed Sheeran and Macklemore story has got me thinking about an Indigenous leader named Opechancanough. And I wonder how many young Opechancanoughs there are…
Quiet Canines PodcastA Zionist Billionaire Tries to Silence Macklemore
The Ed Sheeran and Macklemore story has collided with three parts of who I am. I have been a New England Patriots fan my entire life. I have probably watched…
Quiet Canines PodcastA Father’s Prophecy, A Son’s Promise
In the 1800s, an Indigenous man named Atatíc̓eʔ looked across the Great Plains and had a terrible prophecy. He warned his people that the bison would soon…
Quiet Canines PodcastRelationships Between Indigenous American Peoples and Wolves
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit quietcanines.substack.com For decades, the dominant scientific narrative .”regarding the…
Quiet Canines PodcastGray Whales Are Washing Up Dead on the West Coast
The bodies kept appearing out of nowhere. In March a whale corpse was found floating in San Francisco Bay. Then, in April, a whale was found dead and beached…
Quiet Canines PodcastAlberta, Treaty 6 and Transgender Health Care
Last year Alberta Premier Danielle Smith enacted three pieces of legislation impacting transgender youth. Bill 26 prohibits gender affirming medical care for…
Quiet Canines PodcastPo’Pay: The Pueblo Hero Who Led the First American Revolution
The First American Revolution was not in 1775. It happened 100 years earlier. When conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado arrived in the Southwest in 1540…
Quiet Canines PodcastThe Great Ball Game
The following story is one version of a Haudenosaunee tale that teaches every creature has a purpose and importance according to the Creator’s plan. Lacrosse…
Quiet Canines PodcastTHE MEXICAN GRAY WOLF
Did you know that the Mexican gray wolf is an endangered species that was deliberately exterminated, rescued from extinction with a captive breeding program…
Quiet Canines PodcastOriginal Man and Wolf
In an Anishinaabe creation story, the Creator gives Original Man a responsibility: to travel across the Earth and name the living things he encounters. During…
Quiet Canines PodcastThe Ultimate Betrayal of Mollie Burkhart
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit quietcanines.substack.com In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members…
Quiet Canines PodcastCould Learning an Indigenous Language Help Save the Planet?
Learning an Indigenous language could save us from catastrophic climate change. The world will soon cross a dangerous climate change threshold. That’s…
Quiet Canines PodcastTHE REIGN OF TERROR
In the 1920s, the Osage Indigenous Nation in Oklahoma became the wealthiest people per capita in the world after oil was discovered on their land. Then, they…
Quiet Canines PodcastKillers of the Flower Moon
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered on their land, they rode in…
Quiet Canines PodcastThe Civilized Indian
Elias Hill was the only civilized Indian of the nineteenth century. This story begins with the Gradual Civilization Act of 1857, which was passed before…
Quiet Canines PodcastResidential School Denialism
This Indigenous lawyer is participating in classic residential school denialism, whether he means to or not. Alberta lawyer Leighton Grey spoke at the Alberta…
Quiet Canines PodcastCanadian Defense Strategy
Look at these two losers poking fun at Canada’s military. We know the American military is bigger and more powerful. But if you think an invasion means rolling…
Quiet Canines PodcastCanada Experimented on Indigenous Children Without Their Knowledge
In the 1940s, the Canadian government discovered that Indigenous children in residential schools were suffering from serious malnutrition. They found low body…
Quiet Canines PodcastWHY IS TRUMP DISRESPECTING GEORGE WASHINGTON ON AMERICA’S 250TH ANNIVERSARY?
We all know that Trump loves tearing up Democratic agreements. He replaced NAFTA with USMCA just to stick it to Bill Clinton. He abandoned the JCPOA just to…
Quiet Canines PodcastWHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON EASTER ISLAND?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit quietcanines.substack.com For decades, Rapa Nui was presented as a warning about environmental…