JeffSpooner.   I remember the CBC series a “History of a Nation” depicting the 3 day public torturing of a native from another tribe.  While violins played in the background, the CBC narrator told us it was all about honour and respect.  Conversely we are constantly told today that any problems today with violence are all our fault  - colonisation, white supremacy, whatever. 
At what point does our collective guilt and compensation  need to end?