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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Comparing aboriginal people to Hutterites is totally illogical. First point, hutterites could actually buy land. "Indians" couldn't without approval from the Indian agent.
Seriously, there's so much ignorance about the history of how we got here that you might as well just shut this thread down. There's no actual discussion on what to do because almost everyone has no idea what's happened.
An excellent place to start is here:
http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100014597
Probably the most comprehensive history of First Nations peoples, what went wrong and where to go. But far be it from me for anyone to actually learn about the issue. |
Good post. People love to call for an even playing field now, but fail to recognize how stacked the odds were 150 years ago and how that's the source of all these problems. At a time when they were giving hundreds of acres of land to any warm body (as long as they were white) who could pay a nominal pre-emption fee, a First Nations person couldn't buy a scrap of land even if they had the money. Trying to compare them to immigrants who had the money and legal opportunity to acquire land for a pittance is asinine.