I've spent over fifty years in an affected community. The damage is multi-generational and far outweighs any "good" that might have happened, like finding an undamaged photo in the ruins of a house fire.
Any stories of them taking Gaelic children from their families, failing to give them adequate nutrition and healthcare, having a surprising number of them pass away, and failing to notify their parents when they died?
The very concept that 'bad white man' "stole" the land from an assortment of indians is a stretch, to say the least.
Look at the data. Around the time that the euros (and even earlier the viking explorers) encountered the Red Indians they numbered around 700k, spread over a huge landmass that is north america. What is that....a 3% occupancy rate? (not including the Eskimos here)
As far as I know, the indians were found:
At stone age level. No established governments, no permanent infrastructure, economies, no written language, no plough, no mechanised farming. Was this their 'fault'? I don't know, they were essentially isolated once the ice bringe melted.
Constant warring and fighting and killing each other.
No established system of property governance, or legal claims via an established judicial system.
Still living in glorified tents, meanwhile hundreds of years earlier the romans had built this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome it still stands today.
Granted, the indians were good at building rope bridges, which the euros were leery of crossing. I may be wrong but I dont beleive there was much else.
If any of the above is inaccurate please let me know.
So how can a claim of 'land back' be levelled at people who encountered a land with an occupancy rate of at best, 5%?
Saying that, fine. If the indians really want the horrible caucasian man out of "their" land I have no problem of giving them back the entire landmass of Canada, on the provision that it would be very unfair of us to bugger off without removing all traces of our opression, lets restore the land to the original sacred untouched level so they can have it as we found it, and then they can do what they will with it.
Id imagine the removal of every last brick, power station, cell tower, and bolt of infrastructure that "we" mostly built (with the help of the chinese with the railway) would take many billions of dollars to achieve to get it back to basically grassland and praries, but hey, think of the unspoilt land just like it was when we first came upon you in furs and animal skins. It will be like old times again!
Oh also you dont get the horses. They were introduced by the spanish. Sorry!
All the millions you make on the casinos will at least offset the labour bill. You can even help out!
I've spent over fifty years in an affected community. The damage is multi-generational and far outweighs any "good" that might have happened, like finding an undamaged photo in the ruins of a house fire.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=residential+school+survivors+stories+canada&t=h_&ia=web
Any stories of them taking Gaelic children from their families, failing to give them adequate nutrition and healthcare, having a surprising number of them pass away, and failing to notify their parents when they died?
The very concept that 'bad white man' "stole" the land from an assortment of indians is a stretch, to say the least.
Look at the data. Around the time that the euros (and even earlier the viking explorers) encountered the Red Indians they numbered around 700k, spread over a huge landmass that is north america. What is that....a 3% occupancy rate? (not including the Eskimos here)
As far as I know, the indians were found:
If any of the above is inaccurate please let me know.
So how can a claim of 'land back' be levelled at people who encountered a land with an occupancy rate of at best, 5%?
Saying that, fine. If the indians really want the horrible caucasian man out of "their" land I have no problem of giving them back the entire landmass of Canada, on the provision that it would be very unfair of us to bugger off without removing all traces of our opression, lets restore the land to the original sacred untouched level so they can have it as we found it, and then they can do what they will with it.
Id imagine the removal of every last brick, power station, cell tower, and bolt of infrastructure that "we" mostly built (with the help of the chinese with the railway) would take many billions of dollars to achieve to get it back to basically grassland and praries, but hey, think of the unspoilt land just like it was when we first came upon you in furs and animal skins. It will be like old times again!
Oh also you dont get the horses. They were introduced by the spanish. Sorry!
All the millions you make on the casinos will at least offset the labour bill. You can even help out!
What's that? No offers? Anyone? Hellooo?