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Originally Posted by _Q_
Well if you want to play that game, let's say the Canadian government were to strip the first nations people of their citizenship, making them stateless. They then set up checkpoints on their territory, start building white only settlements on their land and arbitrarily throw them out of their homes to build those settlements.
What do you think the indigenous population would do in that case?
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This happened over the last 150 years.
The response was two armed resistances in 1869 and 1885. While 1869 was ended somewhat diplomatically, in 1885 the feds killed and imprisoned anyone to took part, and made an example of the Nations by setting up NWMP stations and restricting their movement for the next 50 years, and started an intense program of trying to convert their language, religion culture to euro Canadian Protestantism. Hell in this same region a young man was killed and his murder was let free in 2016.
while the scale of violence is relatively smaller the systematic structures have many similarities.