Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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  • I always thought it was ‘Last of the mohicans’ because the same people I knew also took part in that film. They hire a lot of individuals from Six Nations near Hamilton Ontario, it’s the biggest native community in southern Ontario.

    But that film was mostly done in the US.

    I think the film where this happened was with ‘Black Robe’, another period film during that period in the 90s and this one was filmed on Quebec.

    The people I knew in Toronto were people that ran support programs for indigenous people who lived on the street. They said they didn’t know any of it had happened until these street people came back to tell them about it. They said a lot of those street people just had fun being paid to beat up white people. Lol.


  • Reminds me of a story I heard in Toronto with a bunch of my Native friends and family down there.

    While they filmed ‘Last of Mohicans’ (movie came out in 1992 but it was filmed in 1991)

    EDIT: I’m remembering wrong … it was a film in the late 1980s / early 1990s with filming that took place somewhere around Kingston / Toronto / Hamilton, in Ontario … and it was some period film with an epic battle scene … it was always a funny story with my city Indian friends because they remembered being bussed to these locations to do these scenes

    … the production company decided to hire a bunch of Indigenous people from the city and throughout southern Ontario to take part in a big huge choreographed open battle scene. They only needed a few trained stunt people for the foreground characters but they hired a lot of untrained people to take part in the background and wider shots. Everyone got dressed in period gear and given instructions on what to do. They had to take several takes over a day of filming.

    At one point, they had to break up actual fights as Native actors started to actually beat, bloody and threaten the white actors. What the production company didn’t know was that some of the actors were either street people or people close to living on the street and that some of them were down and out drug addicted people who were just there for a few hours work and didn’t care what they were doing. As soon as they were told to pretend to beat white people … they took out all their frustrations on a few of their fellow non-Native stunt acting extras.

    People have mentioned that in some of the scenes from the film … those are actual bloodied people (both Native and non-Native) that got into some of the uglier actual fight scenes on set.














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    It’s not a racial thing … it’s a money and wealth thing

    If blacks had a bunch of billionaires and owned majority wealth in the world and had easy access and control of the largest military in the world … then racial profiling according to skin colour would be a lot different

    It’s about the money … it’s always about the money