With all the talk of “stolen land” flying about these days, we need to keep in mind the ideas that gave rise to this non-concept.
…a group of first-year university students at the University of Connecticut were welcomed to their campus via a series of online ‘events’. At one event, students were directed to download an app for their phones. The app allowed students to input their home address, and it would piously inform them from which group of Native Americans their home had been ‘stolen’.
So what can be the harm in acknowledging every morning that Canadians live on stolen First Nations land? The problem is this: if you begin the day by acknowledging that your country, your society, and people of your ancestry are particularly egregious, this is a sure route to self-doubt, impotence and societal failure.
No land was stolen. None.
When Whitey first showed up in what is now Canada, 450 years ago, there wasn’t even 1 million Abos’ spread out over the whole of canada.
There are millions upon Millions upon Millions upon millions of square miles where no Indian has ever stepped, so for them to claim that it’s all theirs is ridiculous ,especially since they were colonizers themselves, they just got here earlier than Whitey
Where I live was Sarcee land 300 years ago. The Cree and Assiniboine killed off a bunch and chased the rest of the Sarcee south to around Calgary and their Dene brothers, the Beaver, to the north. Who am I supposed to feel guilt about?
That’s the whole point of this. Brainwashing a population into destroying itself. A hell of a lot cheaper than an armed invasion.
This is just another tactic to demoralize the white population and is a part of the depopulation plan that is well underway a la … the globalists who do not know what they are doing. It will end badly.
Funny how the “We Were Here First Ones” can only claim ownership under Whiteman Rules.
If we use their rules,they get exterminated.
So which rules do they want to play by?
Do we go by the “who was here first” or the “possession is 9/10th of the law?” What if the ones who occupied the land, when the first white people arrived, had actually killed off the previous occupants? Then, my thinking is that they should be grateful we just occupied along side them and didn’t kill them as they did the previous occupiers
Indigenous tribes want more than half of New Brunswick.
Other tribes want the other half.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/wolastoqey-nation-filing-for-title-claim-against-new-brunswick-1.5750955
Jeezus… do we have to make this conquest a best 2 out of 3 ?
Well that’s part of the problem in Canada…..in the U.S. they declared war against the Abos. Canada didn’t. That changes the aspect in terms of the law.
They claim the treaties are null and void because the white man reneged on the terms. Okay, fair enough. I claim the treaties are null and void because they’ve reneged on their duty to be peaceable and of good behaviour. No more treaties, and their assaults on transportation infrastructure are a clear casus belli. Time to start shelling the reservations.
Ok, if this whole “colonization” thingy is bad…I’m going to have to insist that we close our southern border so as not to let it happen again. Everyone good with that? Because, like it or not, the majority of indigenous people in any location eventually folded into the dominant people of the time through marriage, prodigy and the like. They weren’t just all killed and thrown in a hole.
So, essentially, and comparatively, South and Central America, China and the Middle East are trying (and succeeding) in colonizing the US and Canada. That’s bad….so I’m told ad nauseum . We have to stop these interlopers.
Kind of hard to have a land claim when you lived a nomadic lifestyle.
Just Claim it all.
Hence BC has less land than landclaim.
Can’t say the Lord’s Prayer at the start of a school day any more, but make the kids effectively pray to the indigenous people instead and that’s just fine.
One of myriad reasons I’m bearish on the future of western civilization.
Don’t the treaties read that they “ceded” (sold) the land to the Crown in perpetuity as long as we looked after them, i.e., give them bucket loads of money?
They get their bucket loads of money, and they are reneging on their side of the deal.
Depends on the treaty, some were they gave up the lands they were occupying for payment, some where give up the lands in exchange for annual payment, and some were less advantageous.
I happen to live in the general vicinity of land that was sold to the crown in 1787-78, and then again in 1805, and then again in 1923, before the last “settlement” in 2010. I fully expect that we will be having another “settlement” in my lifetime once the tribe wastes the 2010 “settlement”.
My house is built on land where my mammalian ancestors lived millions of years ago before it was stolen by “SETTLERS!!” who only arrived very recently within the last 20,000 years and colonized my homeland.
l accuse all aboriginals of cultural appropriation in the use of MY mother tongue ye olde englich. so, until they sftu and work thru interpreters then . . . . sftu
Well TBF … they ARE printing unintelligible, unpronounceable, words on your street signs and place names. However they kinda HAD to use OUR Latin script since they never developed their own alphabet.
At least one of the “languages” seems to us MS Wingdings as their alphabet.
Odd that without the know-how of those annoying white settlers we wouldn’t now have infrastructure like actual streets let alone street signs.
englich
I prefer the Chinese version – ingrish
Libs etal keep signing agreements with any prior claimant, eg our Metis etal, won’t be any crown or private land in Canada. And, no tax base or government funds. All handed off to others.
Oh well, welcome to Canada, or what passes for a once great nation.
Just saying.
“Stone Age to Gold Age” by Gordon Meek.
Read it.
In the early to mid-1700s, the Apache lived in central and south Texas. They were driven out to the western deserts by the even more savage Comanches, who nearly exterminated some groups of Apaches. The Lakota (Sioux) only took the Black Hills of South Dakota in the late 1700s from another tribe. Who really owns what? War was the natives’ second favorite outdoor sport.
Fantastic article that should be required reading … and required understanding of every public school pupil in America. And Canada.
Every time you hear one of these we need to yell
“Give it back or shut the hell up!”
It’s like saying “ Sure I stole your car and it’s a really nice ride. I’m not giving it back but thanks for the wheels!”
“We, at the University of Oxford, acknowledge that we occupy lands that our Norman ancestors conquered from the Anglo-Saxons, who took them from the Celts, who had been under the domination of the Romans, who evacuated the land because their empire was being overrun by Goths, who were being pushed out of their homes by Huns and Scythians. The Persians probably fit in there somewhere too, but we’re not so sure.
For details on the warm, respectful relations among the North American indigenous folks, read, among others:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38404/38404-h/38404-h.htm#Page_178.
Samuel Hearne: “… In a few seconds the horrible scene commenced; it was shocking beyond description; the poor unhappy victims were surprised in the midst of their sleep, and had neither time nor power to make any resistance; men, women, and children, in all upward of twenty, ran out of their tents stark naked, and endeavoured to make their escape; but the Indians having possession of all the land-side, to no place could they fly for shelter. One alternative only remained, that of jumping into the river; but, as none of them attempted it, they all fell a sacrifice to Indian barbarity!
1771. July.
The shrieks and groans of the poor expiring wretches were truly dreadful; and my horror was much increased at seeing a young girl, seemingly about eighteen years of age, killed so near me, that when the first spear was stuck into her side she fell down at my feet, and twisted round my legs, so that it was with difficulty that I could disengage myself from her dying grasps. As two Indian men pursued this unfortunate victim, I solicited very hard for her life; but the murderers made no reply till they had {154} stuck both their spears through her body, and transfixed her to the ground. They then looked me sternly in the face, and began to ridicule me, by asking if I wanted an Esquimaux wife; and paid not the smallest regard to the shrieks and agony of the poor wretch, who was twining round their spears like an eel! Indeed, after receiving much abusive language from them on the occasion, I was at length obliged to desire that they would be more expeditious in dispatching their victim out of her misery, otherwise I should be obliged, out of pity, to assist in the friendly office of putting an end to the existence of a fellow-creature who was so cruelly wounded. On this request being made, one of the Indians hastily drew his spear from the place where it was first lodged, and pierced it through her breast near the heart. The love of life, however, even in this most miserable state, was so predominant, that though this might justly be called the most merciful act that could be done for[180] the poor creature, it seemed to be unwelcome, for though much exhausted by pain and loss of blood, she made several efforts to ward off the friendly blow. My situation and the terror of my mind at beholding this butchery, cannot easily be conceived, much less described; though I summed up all the fortitude I was master of on the occasion, it was with difficulty that I could refrain from tears; and I am confident that my features must have feelingly expressed how sincerely I was affected at the barbarous scene I then {155} witnessed; even at this hour I cannot reflect on the transactions of that horrid day without shedding tears.
Also check out Page 245 of Johnson, Dorothy M. (1971). The Bloody Bozeman-The Perilous Trail to Montana’s Gold. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. ISBN 0-87842-152-1 or at https://archive.org/details/bloodybozemanper00john/mode/2up
“…This treatment [by the women] was prolonged until, thinking that death would soon relieve the poor victim from their hellish cruelty, they began dismembering him, cutting off his fingers, toes, ears and nose; no part of the miserable being’s human anatomy escaped their horrible attentions, and they were constantly encouraged and directed to greater cruelties by the warriors and children.”