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Originally Posted by flip
Thanks tips. As if anyone didn't already know that.
So what about the people who came to Canada before the "Red Man"? Is the land actually theirs? How come NA is one of the few places in the world where who lived on the land previously matters? Most every other conquered people in the world gave up on fighting it like 500 years ago and just dealt with it.
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Read a few history books... Land ownership (and it's related resources) is one of the primary factors in every conflict in human history. It's not just North America.
Getting kinda sick of the "the're a conquered" people argument too. First Nations were not conquered in Canada. They were initially held in high regard by the first European inhabitants (the fur-traders). It wasn't until the settler's showed up that confrontation was encountered when the government out east starting partitioning up the land and "selling" it. The settler's believed they now "owned" the land, while the First Nations had no concept of land ownership at all.
By the time the First Nations actually understood what was happening, they were outnumbered and segregated into ridiculously tiny plots of useless land in preparation for cultural assimilation. No war occured, very few "battles". They were simply displaced.