Colonialism and Colonialism

colonialism: Cancer, colonialism and capitalism, according to Rabble. "Colonialism and capitalism are based on extracting and assimilating. My land is seen as a resource. My relatives in the plant and animal worlds are seen as resources. My culture and knowledge is a resource. My body is a resource and my children are a resource because they are the potential to grow, maintain, and uphold the extraction-assimilation system. The act of extraction removes all of the relationships that give whatever is being extracted meaning. Extracting is taking. Actually, extracting is stealing -- it is taking without consent, without thought, care or even knowledge of the impacts that extraction has on the other living things in that environment. That always been a part of colonialism and conquest. Colonialism has always extracted the indigenous -- extraction of indigenous knowledge, indigenous women, indigenous peoples." The tragic death of Makayla Sault -- who died of leukemia after stopping chemotherapy -- has triggered a backlash. " First Nations parents can now doom their sick children ," warned the Toronto Star . "Dying, because her parents were likely weak and uninformed, possibly misled, and our institutions could not find the backbone to protect this child," wrote an infuriated doctor in the Ottawa Citizen . "Just how Aboriginal rights should matter to any of this in the first place is something that beggars belief," exclaimed the National Post . What beggars belief is the way in which these remarks ignore and reinforce colonialism. Makayla died from cancer, an invasive and destructive disease that colonizes the body and extracts its life force without its consent. This is what Canada has done to Indigenous peoples . As Indigenous academic Leanne Betasamosake Simpson explained , (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.