Angel’S Shouldn’T Cry

By Angela Bourgeau

This story took place about the time of the Second World War toward the end. This German fellow and his family lived about eight miles inland along a lake. The lake had good fishing. His neighbors noticed that he was leaving small bomb-shaped devices along their shared border. He was trying to scare the Indians out of the country.

Instead, his native neighbors went to the RCMP. The German fellow was not a Canadian citizen. That was why he was hiding out in the bush. He was living with a Dn woman, pregnant with her second child. The RCMP made him and his family move out. They had two teams of dogs. The RCMP made the woman walk in three feet of snow for fifty miles.

Every time she fell, the RCMP kicked her to get back up. She miscarried. She still walked all the way to their new destination. Nothing was ever mentioned about it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984545329

Angela Bourgeau

I am Angela Bourgeau and this is my story..

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The House at Ryan’s Hay Camp

We kids used to play in the beautiful big house at Ryan’s hay camp. I used to sweep it and keep it clean. We found a whole roll of oil cloth in the basement. We made curtains with it. The floors were all hard wood. The stairs and bannisters were all polished hard wood. It was just beautiful. It had dry wall all inside. It was sided on the exterior with white siding and had red trim.

The house was just beautiful. I was privileged to play in the home of Mickey Ryan. The history of the Ryan brothers played a major role in the history of the north country. They had a transportation business that brought goods and services up to Alberta, Canada.

Native Society: At Least around 1944

To native men, their woman was always considered to be less human. Women had to listen to their man and speak only when they were spoken to. It was drilled in the heads of native men that they had the right to beat up their wives or partners. So the women hardly ever spoke. It was worse for the women when the men were drinking. They would go home and beat up their wives. Young men would grow up thinking it was acceptable to abuse your spouse. And it still happens today.

I find native people, in general, very weak-minded. And that is speaking as a native person. As soon as things go wrong in a native’s life, they tend to get drunk to deal with it. But it doesn’t work that way. If one has issues, we deal with it, fix it. Drinking and doing drugs do not solve anything. It only worsens the problem. White man introduced alcohol to the native population. Now they have introduced drugs and prescription pills. Now us natives are worse off than ever.

Young natives nowadays don’t know anything about survival in the wilderness. Too much welfare made them lazy. When they come to the big towns, they become street people.

Yet some do well. Thankfully. They work, have own homes, and live well like any working man of any color. But these people have lots of pride. They fit anywhere.

Native women, in general, have a long battle—first with their own people and alpha males and now with women’s rights. They have to put it in the men’s heads that they are not superior. We are all equal, and they are not better than women. Overall across Canada, native women are stereotyped as being less than. That is why there are so many missing and murdered indigenous women across Canada. Native women are marginalized.

I have daughters who work in the oilfield. And as native women, they continuously get treated as being less. White people complain so much. They want to quit paying taxes that go toward native social services. Yet when you are native and in Canada, you are treated badly. White people are really mixed up.