Indigenous Peoples' Mistreatment Has Become The World's #1 Problem
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If you want to learn more about that, track down the podcast of 'White Coat, Black Art' from CBC radio. Enlightening to say the least. One episode dealt with this.
History is interesting but the owners of the land will still be the ones that won the last war. That being said if the native peoples cannot get justice from the new owners they should be taking there grievances to the UN Courts. (in theory as they might have had 7 cases in the last 70 years) Why is that??
Because they have no real case... The expression that possession is 9/10ths of the law comes to mind
Nonsense. They are Basque. They do not care about politics. They care about their sheep!
Not a word in there about fish.
(Sorry, obscure movie reference.)
Not if you can count.
Based on what I can see (and that is a superficial view), much of the force of these claims (Canada at least) are supported by oral tradition as opposed to physical signs of habitation.
Further complicating the situation is that the various tribes (again Canada) separate themselves from others thereby drawing more controversy relative to many overlapping or internally disputed claims.
.... I just don't believe that this issue is as cut and dried as is being advertised
Further complicating the situation is that the various tribes (again Canada) separate themselves from others thereby drawing more controversy relative to many overlapping or internally disputed claims.
.... I just don't believe that this issue is as cut and dried as is being advertised
I was going to say that it's amusing that you think anybody's gonna fall for your crap, but then I remembered that 97% of everybody will fall for damn near anything.
What's the crap in my commentary.
I think that it's a fairly objective and dispassionate view of this circumstance
I'll leave it to the convinced and the clueless. Not really interested in doing a hitch in your echo chamber.
I was suggesting the move would be helpful in getting treated better by their new masters would be the reason rather than revering the outcome of the war.
Among the biggest problems that Canadian FN's have to deal with is their own leadership.
I need not remind you of examples like Attiwapiskat and Theresa Spence
I need not remind you of examples like Attiwapiskat and Theresa Spence
That and socioeconomic marginalization. Both of which would be cured by removing all special status.
Check your pulse.
If it's there, you're wrong.
But seriously folks. . .
I'm very serious about not telling Canada what to do about its FNs. I try to restrict my remarks to the U.S., because the situations and histories are very different. I kinda departed from that principle here, but in my experience as a rez Indian who has managed to get on a bit in life, any form of special status has always worked against us, even the ones that were genuinely intended to help us. I like the rez, and I visit often. I like to be with my people. I will retire there. But when I do, it'll be in a nice house (already built, currently occupied by my brother & family) built on money I made in Whiteworld, where I've spent my adult life, made a lot of money, did some good for the Shawnees, and avoided being a drunk-ass unemployed unemployable loser whining about how Da Man done me wrong.
That last bit is the only part of the rez I don't like. Well, that and the lousy internet speeds.
I'm pretty sure the world has many much larger problems than a few injuns living in poverty because their chief won't share the wealth.