This idea of who owns the land is a bit redundant in my eyes. The history is too complex. All we can agree upon is that Indigenous people were here first but even that isn’t too meaningful of an observation.
Human society is in constant flux. The arrival of Europeans to the continent was perhaps inevitable, but we have to remember that colonialization took hundreds of years. There was plenty of violence - as there had always been. There was also disease, without which conquest of the Americas would not have been possible.
What really concerns me, from a Canadian perspective, is the concerted government effort to contain and assimilate Indigenous peoples - a process that is only about 180 years old and is still ongoing.
If you miss that last part, you’ve completely missed the point.
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