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Originally Posted by you&me
I don't want to reach, or put words in his mouth, but I think he's saying that the notion that the native lands in Canada would have been left alone, and the indigenous people free in their own territory in 2020 is rather naive and totally unrealistic.
I don't see what's hard to understand about that, or how anyone could reasonably hold the view that Canada would be much different than it is today - a developed, first world nation.
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I think without the British, French, and subsequent Canadian/American expansion in North America, it is almost a certainty that Russia would have held on to Alaska and continued expanding east (through conquest).
The question I have is whether aboriginal peoples in Russia's frontier are better off than they are in North America. I really don't know the answer.
The fisheries issues on the east coast are pretty similar to one on the west coast. It actually leaves me very conflicted, but I think the law is on the side of aboriginals. Those laws were pretty darn convenient for the British and Canadian governments (and inconvenient for the native population) when they were implemented, I must say.