"the native traditional is demonized"

You had no sense of the unintended irony in that choice of words, did you?

Native in Canada refers to First Nations, not to Europeans. Even in Newfoundland European ways only go back 500 years. In most of Canada we showed up more recently than that.  Ioannis Phokas discovered the Strait of Juan de Fuca 425 years ago, in 1692, but William Barkley didn't rediscover it until 1787, just 230 years ago.