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Originally Posted by Minnie
But is it really ancestral land? It's just that it would seem that most reserve land is not what would be claimed as ancestral lands
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It's as much ancestral land as if a modern European country tried claiming their current borders are their own ancestral land. In both cases the land has been invaded, abandoned, migrated out of, migrated in to, exchanged, conquered, and reconquered so many times that the original inhabitants are long extinct and forgotten.
They're not the first nations. They were just the people here when the Europeans came. Claiming otherwise is disingenuous.