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Originally Posted by BoLevi
In order for it to be "theft", we need to have some sort of bar regarding ownership. I don't think a tiny number of people can setup shop at a river and then declare they own a whole continent. The people who were living off the land in Canada at the time had nothing even remotely resembling what we would consider a nation-state.
Just because someone laid eyes on a patch of land, doesn't mean they own it.
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I'll just leave this quote here from the Calgary Wikipedia page, and you tell me if the "bar" is high enough for Indigenous to have claim:
The Calgary area was inhabited by pre-Clovis people whose presence has been traced back at least 11,000 years.[35] The area has been inhabited by the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy; Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), îyârhe Nakoda, the Tsuut'ina First Nations peoples and Métis Nation, Region 3. As Mayor Naheed Nenshi (A'paistootsiipsii; Iitiya) describes, "There have always been people here. In Biblical times there were people here. For generations beyond number, people have come here to this land, drawn here by the water. They come here to hunt and fish; to trade; to live; to love; to have great victories; to taste bitter disappointment; but above all to engage in that very human act of building community."
Captain Brisbois thought this place was great too, so he marched in the troops and European colonialists have been now been here since 1875.
So who has "claim" to this land?
Holy cow are you ever being obtuse and ignorant.