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Originally Posted by peter12
That's actually not how it worked at all. Before European contact, there was no national identity or homeland at all. The concepts didn't exist.
Before contact, indigenous peoples continuously fought over territory, and pressed advantages whenever and wherever they could.
I am of the strongest opinion that First Nations people deserve fair treatment and justice, but idealizing them as innocent babes until they were victimized through contact with Europeans is incredibly racist.
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I'm not sure how you are making any connection to racism in my post. It wouldn't have mattered who took the land. If tribe A would have taken land away from tribe B, the members of tribe B probably wouldn't like being referred to as members of tribe A. Some white Canadians don't like being mistakenly labelled Americans, and vice versa, so if someone called a Canadian an American they might offend them, where others might not be offended. What is the issue with apologizing to someone who felt offended?