Grifters be griftin!

[jazz]

So if people first migrated 13,000 yrs ago, werent the ones that came a few thousand year later also colonizers as well.

Or was that all hugs and kisses...

How about the several million people that came into the country in the past 5 yrs, are they colonizers as well.

Or is this just a white settler thing.

There is evidence that humans may have been in NA as far back as 150,000 yrs ago. Wouldnt the people that came 13,000 yrs ago be colonizers then too.

[chuckChuck]

The colonizers and the settlers are on land that was taken from first nations.

In exchange they lost their culture and were forced onto marginal reserves with discriminatory rules that took away many of their rights.

A country that owes a lot of its success and wealth based on stolen first nations land?

Yet the detractors demand that first nations should earn their respect?

[fjlip]

Give yours back to them and STFU.

[cropgrower]

yes and send your own kids out to ukraine to fight also if you support them so much

[chuckChuck]

The question is why are you so opposed to reconciliation and sharing the land and resources that were stolen from first nations with little compensation?

It's in our best interest a a country that first nations succeed in our society and that we acknowledge and accept the harm that was done and that we have a role in making the lives of first nations better.

[jazz]

What will they pay us for the 10,000 year tech upgrade chuck. Our health care alone doubled their life expectancy. Ford F350s dont spring from mother earth.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

The question is why are you so opposed to reconciliation and sharing the land and resources that were stolen from first nations with little compensation?

And the land back movement and the land sharing movement aren't only about private title transfer. They also include governments and first nations buying land or settling long disputed treaty land claims.

I see.

So it is governments and other peoples money that should be used to pay for sharing the land. Not you personally, it is fine if you continue your family dynasty and exclude first nations when you pass your inherited land down to the next generation, while expecting the government to take it away from someone else to give to the first nations.
You are only going to chastise everyone else for not doing enough, while you do absolutely nothing. While committing the ultimate white privilege, passing your assets on to your own offspring.
So what happens if your land is part of the long disputed treaty land claims?

[jazz]

So what happens if your land is part of the long disputed treaty land claims?

Last time I checked all the homes in Vancouver and Toronto and Montreal are built on native land too, allegedly.

Reparations will go over like a lead balloon. I doubt any of our more recent immigrants are willing to pay anything either.

So chuck just wants farmers to pay basically.

[furrowtickler]

The question is why are you so opposed to reconciliation and sharing the land and resources that were stolen from first nations with little compensation?

It's in our best interest a a country that first nations succeed in our society and that we acknowledge and accept the harm that was done and that we have a role in making the lives of first nations better.

Little compensation?????
Hundreds of billions over the past 50 years alone

[WiltonRanch]

I don’t have any problems with giving our First Nations a hand up. I’d like to see them succeed but like any community no matter the race success is determined by good attitudes and capable and honest leadership. A lot of initiatives with First Nations are approached with a communal focus but fail too often because not enough emphasis on individual initiatives. As well people are bloody jealous of the individual getting ahead and go out of their way to bring them back down by wrecking their stuff. I’ve seen this myself.

Reconciliation is fine and all and will take time but at the end of the day the impression I get is it’s another grab for money rather than fixing the archaic Indian act or cleaning up corruption within First Nations government. It didn’t help the process when the apparent mass graves were found causing the radicals to burn down churches only to find a lot of the graves weren’t mass graves and those there were not “murdered”. Bloody media jumped the gun again and caused that.