Quiet Canines Podcast

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 Guanahani. He did not discover anything. Up to 125000 Lucayan Taino people already lived there. Their ancestors called that land home for a thousand years. Columbus was not even the first European here because Leif Eriksson beat him by five centuries...

The White House just launched a new website about Christopher Columbus. Whoever created it plagiarized century old propaganda to erase history. In 1893 the United States hosted a massive Worlds Fair in Chicago. To impress Europe leaders needed a grand founding myth. They chose Columbus as the ultimate symbol of progress. They built grand white palaces to celebrate white civilization. At the exact...

Did you know that in 1578, Martin Frobisher held the first recorded Thanksgiving in Canada? There are many stories celebrating European explorers, like Christopher Columbus and Frobisher, who travelled west across the Atlantic to discover America. But there were also thousands of Indigenous Americans who travelled in the opposite direction and discovered Europe. In 1576, Martin Frobisher, an Engli...

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 Stone Age featured the earliest stone tools. Then people built hot furnaces to melt copper and tin into bronze. Finally came iron, which required intense fire to extract metal from rock. Each step required wood or coal to burn. In the Arctic,...

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 Court upheld a Virginia statute allowing for the sterilization of people who were thought of as “unfit.” The judge wrote,

Chapter I Congress is finally condemning a dark chapter in American history. Lawmakers introduced a historic resolution to address the forced sterilization of thousands of Native American women. This abuse happened during the 1970s. The federal government and the Indian Health Service hid this reality for decades. Survivors never stopped fighting for justice. Their voices now force a national reck...

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 ancient Andean engineering. The Aymara peoples developed it over 2000 years ago near Lake Titicaca. The Inca Empire knew of it but never adopted the technology. By the time the Spanish arrived, the fields were buried and nearly lost, though pil...

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 arrived in 1492. Within a century, most of them were dead. The collapse of farming that followed was so great that it cooled the global climate. First contact brought disease. Europeans carried measles, smallpox, influenza and the bubonic plagu...

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 Dorsey, a famous curator at the Field Museum of Natural History, had sent men to rob the site. Dorsey believed that primitive cultures were vanishing and that science had a legal right to salvage their remnants. While colonial settlers treated th...

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 American Museum of Natural History, has come back to haunt the museum. Lured to New York by false promises, exhibited to the public as a curiosity and forced to live in the basement of the museum, Minik died in 1918. His story raises unpleasant...

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 those books were works by Franz Boas, a scientist who spent fifty years proving that Nazi ideas about race were wrong. His journey began decades earlier in an Inuit snow house in the Canadian Arctic. In the 1800s, scientists believed humans b...

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 have wild ancestors that look like the crop. But in the Balsas River Valley in southwestern Mexico, the Indigenous people living there domesticated a plant that looks nothing like its wild ancestor. They were the Makaya and Mixe Zoque who took...

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 years living with the Iroquois before publishing his book League of the Iroquois in 1851. Morgan wrote about their political structure where six distinct nations united under one great law. They formed a grand council of leaders that prevented a...

Five thousand years ago the Andean people of Peru discovered something more valuable than gold. Countries eventually fought bloody wars over it. Six hundred years ago it inspired the first conservation laws in human history. In the thirteenth century the Incas built the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. This massive civilization of twelve million people stretched across rugged mountains and...

Deep in the Andean rainforest, indigenous peoples discovered a remedy that later became a major tool of European imperialism. The Quechua, Cañari, and Chimú peoples have lived in parts of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador for millennia. At high altitudes in the Andes Mountains grows the tall cinchona tree. Early indigenous botanists discovered that grinding its bark into a powder and mixing it with water...

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 “Got Bones” above the highway. These groups do drills in the woods to prepare for a vague threat to white people. The Prime Minister called them cowards on X. If they are brave men, why do they hide their faces? In 2021 the Kamloops Nation used...

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 technology that eventually powered the global Industrial Revolution. Long before European factories emerged, these brilliant minds had already mastered advanced chemical engineering. They successfully manipulated a useless raw material into a...

Anyone who defends colonialism is either ignorant or complicit. Spanish politician Isabel Díaz Ayuso praised Hernán Cortés as a visionary who brought freedom to the Americas, claiming colonization liberated indigenous people from Aztec tyranny. Here are the facts. In 1519, Cortés ordered his troops to trap thousands of unarmed citizens inside a sacred courtyard in Cholula. Spanish soldiers massacr...

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 revolutionary food crop in history. At extreme altitudes up to 4,000 meters in Peru and Bolivia as they are known today, wild potatoes carried lethal levels of toxins. Observing wild animals like vicuñas and guanacos licking clay to neutralize plant po...

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 that this protection also came with a loss. Indigenous languages carry more than words. They connect people to family, land, history, spirituality, and ways of understanding the world. Across Canada, the United States, Australia, and Aotearoa...

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 so weak they couldn’t stand up. Their legs swelled like balloons. Their gums rotted and their teeth became loose. Purple marks showed up all over their bodies. By February, of the 110 men who made up Cartier’s expedition, eight were dead an...

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 for Indigenous Peoples. He said that before Europeans arrived, Indigenous people had short lives, constant war, stone tools and cannibalism. Apparently, he learned this from early missionary diaries, although he did not say which ones. Missi...

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 was interviewed by Chief Aaron Pete, Chief of the Chawathil First Nation. On May 22, he was interviewed by Kenora council candidate Karla Treadway, who is trying to get elected on October 26. I think Chief Pete did a good job pushing back agai...

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 Nation uses the term “removals” instead of “Trail of Tears.” Early in the 19th century, the United States felt threatened by England and Spain, who held land in the western continent. At the same time, American settlers wanted more land. Thoma...

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 and books under the pen name of Janey Canuck. Her book Janey Canuck in the West was very popular. Murphy would go on to become a suffragette, one of the Famous Five who secured the right for women to be considered “persons” under the law. Wel...