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Originally Posted by Ducay
The whole "their land" thing is such a BS argument. They came to this land at some point too, potentially took it from someone or another tribe, it was captured/recaptured in wars, etc. We came here and did the same thing, tough titties. This isn't a practice of calling "dibs" on land. Look at Europe and Africa, there isn't some game of "who had it first gets moral rights to it forever".
They have the land and rights agreed to in the treaties that stopped any further hostilities between nations (both native and Canadian), but somehow right now everyone feels ultra-sensitive to their rights and basically we'll give them anything they want for fear of being culturally insensitive.
They can rename their reserves and towns to whatever they so please, but they gave up rights to our sovereign nation when they signed the treaties.
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Oral histories of treaty 7 say that the natives did not cede land whereas the English written copies state they did. There are journals at the time that back up the oral histories. So stating they ceded the land is not necessarily correct.
That said if the land was not ceded the land would have been taken one way or another.
Also there was no concert of owning land in Native culture so the concept of their land is a colonial white creation.