...without them one day believing you.
There is a common thread stretching from the Idle No More protests, to the Rexton anti-fracking riots, to the Indian occupation of Caledonia, to the blockades faced by resource companies across Canada. And it is the theory that all of Canada is still Indian territory.
Part of it comes from the politically engineered phrase “First Nations,” which is the favoured alternative to the term “Indian band.”
Calling 600 little towns across Canada —that’s really what an Indian band is, a race-based municipal government — “nations” blurs reality. Under the Indian Act, reserves are racial homelands, not sovereign nation-states.
But ideas have consequences. You can’t tell someone they live in a “nation” without them one day believing you.
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There is a common thread stretching from the Idle No More protests, to the Rexton anti-fracking riots, to the Indian occupation of Caledonia, to the blockades faced by resource companies across Canada. And it is the theory that all of Canada is still Indian territory.
Part of it comes from the politically engineered phrase “First Nations,” which is the favoured alternative to the term “Indian band.”
Calling 600 little towns across Canada —that’s really what an Indian band is, a race-based municipal government — “nations” blurs reality. Under the Indian Act, reserves are racial homelands, not sovereign nation-states.
But ideas have consequences. You can’t tell someone they live in a “nation” without them one day believing you.
more
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