Originally posted by Alfheim
Please elaborate.
ummm...
1 all land is conquered land, Natives would have taken territory from eachother in conflict
2 at least in North America, we are fed a lot of nonsense about how Natives were these mega naturalpathic, mega sustainable awesome communities where everyone shared everything and there were no problems. Clearly this isn't true and very clearly Natives had a sense of ownership.
3 Native sense of ownership has little to do with land claims since most claims are over treaties signed with the British, where ownership is very explicitly stated in legally binding terms.
4 smilie face emotes normally denote a sense of sarcasm
Originally posted by Alfheim
Its alot more recent and the American Indians are still being oppressed.
There is this guy in Southern Ontario named Sean Brent who has released some stuff on the internet that sounds shockingly similar to other extremeist stuff. He claims that there are no innocent Canadian civilians and that they need to start action to destroy the government and the economy. Him and a bunch of others have shut down highways and rainlines already.
As far as oppression goes, the major issue with the natives now is one of motivation. Sure, there are some cases like out in Calgary where there is clear systemic abuse, and there may be some prejudice in the system all over, but when a high school full of native kids has 0 make it past grade 11, that is not a matter of oppression. Natives need to get their act together.