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Originally Posted by redforever
I think many would say the reserve life is part of their culture now, but make no mistake, this was a culture forced on them. Most First Nations people were nomadic.
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Many Indigneous groups of the Americas were not, in fact, nomadic at all. There are lots of modern day cities that were actually native settlements, and quite established at that. True, some tribes were nomadic and followed herds etc, but the idea that natives were not settled was promoted to minimize just how savagely Europeans 'displaced' the natives.
It wasn't just their open 'land' that was systemically and deceitfully taken, but the villages and infrastructures that had been a huge part of native culture for a long, long time.