City of Vancouver formally declares city is on unceded Aboriginal territory

Twila

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Nobody owns land. It was here before man and it will be here after man - sorta like fleas claiming ownership of the dog

the gov't owns the money that can pay the lawyers to work the law to it's own benefit and thereby control the land.

This would appear to be about control.
 

captain morgan

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It was not abandoned land and it was not sold. Natives were allowed to live if they moved to reservations. If they were found off the reservation without written permission they were shot or jailed. A internment camp of sorts.

Today, most of BC remains unceded sovereign Native lands, over which neither the Canadian or BC governments have the legal or moral authority to govern.

Who did the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh displace way back in the day?

If you're going to point to 'oral tradition' as the means of assessing 'ownership', I'm sure that between Petros and I, we can also claim some form of ownership as per my (or his) present day oral traditions

That work for you?
 

Cliffy

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