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Originally Posted by blankall
Seriously?
Do you think those treaties were negotiated fairly? Do you justify indigenous people being pushed onto reserves that make up a fraction of a percent of the land because of these treaties? Did the indigenous people negotiate residential schools?
How do you even sign away indigenous rights like that? One person makes a decision and then the indigenous rights for all of the people and their descendants are gone forever?
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Just since I am on the topic residential schools are an interesting element of treaty negotiations.
The history of residential schools is complex and sometimes contradictory. In some cases, First Nations wanted education as an aspect of treaty to help maintain economic sovereignty. Conversely, many Canadians wanted residential schools to assimilate Indigenous peoples. In the end, the residential school system was not made collaboratively or in good faith. Instead, it was governed by the ideology of Settler Colonialism.