Indigenous Land Acknowledgements

47 Replies to “Indigenous Land Acknowledgements”

1. “White settlers”? On stolen land? Pay rent?

   Sowing the seeds of a coming catastrophe.

   1. I can see HRH Prinz Dummkopf standing up in the House one day, turning on the waterworks, and giving it all back. But that’ll get him into trouble with his beloved soldiers of Allah, won’t it, because don’t they already consider this country part of the great caliphate?

2. I’m not going to apologize for being born. They want my land they’ll have to kill me for it.

   1. Amen!

   2. Don’t worry, the government may have already thought of that.

3. I was born here so piss off

   1. And Amen to that too!

   2. These “Land Acknowledgements” reek of “Carbon Credits” … nonsensical indulgences of white guilt. SMH … useless preening.

      BTW … do the leftist FOOLS running Wilfred-Laurier have any idea what they have unleashed, by sanctioning Lindsay!!? I am LOVING her awakening.

4. Nomadic people are poor stewards of the land. They use up all the resources around them and move on to another territory whether it’s occupied or not. Figuring out who to give the land back to would be a significant challenge. If it goes to the last occupier, then that would be us.

   1. We have it by right of conquest and occupation. If we don’t care to hold it someone else will take it (or take it back). That’s all there ever is, regardless of how anyone dresses it up.

   2. Before the first nations came North America was full of large mammals; mammoths, camels, sabre toothed cats, etc. And then they were hunted to extinction. So I have no sympathy for “first” nations.

5. Conquered savages should never be respected following the conquest. Fortunately when we become majority minority none will give a crap about whitey’s sentiment concerning those savages.

6. If the treaties say the land was ceded to the Crown, done, end of story.

7. I’m a naturalized Canadian. I inherited my father’s house and lot after he died. Does that make me the recipient of stolen property?

8. The acknowledgement that really gets to me is that when “Metis traditional lands” are included. By definition, the Metis are of mixed blood, so there had to be whites present on the land before the Metis, so the Metis are equally settlers on the land.

9. Native Canadians, founding peoples (or whatever the politically correct term is) celebrate their brave warrior culture. What this means is that the more aggressive tribes raped and pillaged their weaker and more pacifist cousins.

   Are the aggressive Iroquois paying reparations to the more pacifist Hurons? Why not?

   1. “the more aggressive tribes raped and pillaged their weaker and more pacifist cousins.”

      True, and slavery was alive and well long before whitey landed. But that doesn’t mesh with the accepted romantic drivel.

10. Canada has now recognized Class Action Law suits…. This calls for legal action against the Canadian Government for complicity regarding Crown Assets…. Time for ALL of Canada to put a stop to this creeping stupidity… A 100 years on the dole is enough, abolish the Federal Indian Affaires….and let Indians fend for themselves like everyone else…..It was PET who wanted this

    1. Hey first nations, how about reparations to all the peoples of the world for giving us tobacco?

11. The minute some bonehead starts with that nonsense, I simply walk away. And I don’t give a damn where it happens.

    1. I’m glad I finished my university studies before this current fad started. Had someone started going on about “land acknowledgements” during my Ph. D. convocation, I might have walked out of the ceremony.

12. None of these soyboys ever seem to want to, you know, give the land back or anything.

    The problem with these land acknowledgements (and I’m from the Waterloo Region, so I know a bit about the history of the area) is that the treaties with tribes at the time the land was settled by the British were clear and unambiguous. A bit of a raw deal for the tribes, who were a subjugated people by that point, but clear and unambiguous. These idiotic land acknowledgements derive from the wholly unsupported and unsupportable claim by the current tribes that the treaty isn’t binding because tribal oral history says they never signed the treaty, or there was some other treaty that they did sign that says something different that no one seems to have a copy of, or whatever bollocks they’re making up this week.

    We can be uncomfortable about the way the British treated the natives two hundred years ago if we feel so inclined, but legally we are the rightful owners of the land by right of conquest and binding treaty agreements.

    1. The British brought an end to the inter-tribal genocide and slavery that existed on the West Coast. Based on what elders recall, most tribes (conquered) were grateful while the dominant tribes (conquerors) have been resentful to this day. If anyone has worked on the Queen Charlotte Islands (renamed Haida Gwaii about 20 years ago) they know what I’m talking about.

       Lindsay seemed to think that Indian problems originate from the trauma of the residential schools. The reality is that they were the last honest and arguably flawed attempt at assimilation and breaking the cycle of social conditions one would expect in mostly remote, socialist, racially-based, federal government funded and administered ghettos.

       The Indian industry runs on white guilt and “land acknowledgements” is just another tool to reinforce it.

13. What needs to be stated in these land acknowledgements, is that “this land was SURRENDERED under treaty such an such, and we all live under the agreement of the treaty blah blah blah..”

    Every time, if we’re going to keep having these pronouncements, it should always be stated, that the land was SURRENDERED!

    1. And they still have shown gratitude for not being exterminated or expelled or enslaved. In most of history most peoples have done that when moving into another’s territory.

14. Just call it what it really is: Anti-White racism.

15. I am as indigenous as any indian alive today. Generation after generation of a Canadian born family. This idiocy of someone owning something because they have lived here longer than anyone else stops at the day they were born.

16. By definition, the Metis hadn’t been around long enough to have traditional lands when they claim to have had traditional lands. They had habits.

17. i have a land acknowledgement every two weeks when I pay my mortgage.

18. The argument is that the land was never surrendered it was ‘shared’. Indians had no concept of land ownership. Tribes held territory that was generally acknowledged and accepted by the other tribes. They understood trespass.

    The treaties they signed legally bind both parties, government and the tribes. Our courts generously interpret treaty language because for the most part the Indians were signing documents that they were unable to read. In many cases their signatures are an ‘X’.

19. Fair enough. The First Nations (or whatever the politically correct term is these days) should recite something like “We acknowledge that almost all of our everyday lives benefit from the knowledge imparted by European or Asian settlers including modern medicine, plants and animals, technology and the use of metals. We also acknowledge that we have never paid even one cent of royalties for the use of such knowledge”.

    Let’s see how that one flies.

    1. The triumph of the native experience is that they were able to exist at all in the harshest environment. For the most part they had no permanent buildings, lived in a constant state of warfare, had tools made of stone, no written language and lived hand to mouth.

       When Champlain sailed up the St. Lawrence he encountered stone age man. The Europeans were entering the iron age. No contest.
       The Indians had not evolved which is not a fault it is a fact and should be recognized. The effects are evident to this day. Lets deal with it.
       Yes they were treated badly but if you go back far enough in history every tribe that ever walked the planet has had the same experience.

20. So how do the Iroquois on the Six Nations Reserve apologize for killing the Huron and stealing their land?

21. I am making a prediction that someday your government will give all our land back to us and you white folks won’t do nothing about it.

    1. Do they have a term for that?

    2. You won’t like the outcome.

    3. Hey, lets not get too hasty der Jimmy. We don’t want de white folks tuh leave cuz who’d run the KFC’s ‘n liquor stores ‘n stuff? Best not to get too greedy. Maybe just a 10 or 15% partial lean on all that stolen property? Then we can borrow a bit here and there, just enough to live comfortably, huh?

       1. You got a point there Willy. Because whitey is buying our gas and our cigarettes and filling up our casinos and sending us billions and billions every year in treaty money, so I guess we have it pretty good anyways. It’s just like the old days but better because this time our slaves actually thing they’re free.

          1. In any way that you are not much, much better off than your ancestors of three or more generations ago, it is entirely within your grasp to correct it. In the early part of the previous century neither yours nor mine could have imagined the material wealth and the individual freedom of opportunity available to you or to me nor the relative ease with which we can avail ourselves of it. Make a list of everything in this country that is so hard on you, then make a list of the places you want to move to escape it. I’ll stay, and I bet you will, too.

             1. The white folks didunt just take the land, they took away the woods and the grasslands and the animals too. Nothing can be put back the way is wuz. Apologies from prime ministers are nothing but hot air. Its time to pay up.

             2. “…Make a list of everything in this country that is so hard on you…”

                Jeez, you think this is one of them 2-spirited sites or something?

          2. In the U.S. we have tribes that were never recognized by the Feds. In some states, these freemen live side by side with the full-time federal dependents. In wealth, cultural capital, they are indistinguishable from any other successful American bourgeoisie. At the same time, you can always find profiteering fellow tribes women(mostly) who continually beg and grovel to be recognized so they can get their cut of the graft.

22. After reparations from Indians for holding white /black/red slaves maybe.

23. As Jordan Peterson once famously said, and I paraphrase rather inaccurately, “Tell me what I have to pay to compensate for my apparent superiority so I can just pay up and not have to be constantly hounded.”

    I find these land acknowledgements creepy, they have more than just a whiff of totalitarianism.

24. Want to have fun at events where they do this in Calgary? Ask how come they don’t acknowledge that the bands that “claim” the territory around Calgary ALL came from elsewhere, and that the Shoshone tribe has oral history that THEY occupied the area as far north as the RED DEER RIVER until about 1780…

25. I watched this video and thought “oh, well more political correctness on college campuses.”

    Then today, I took my father-in-law to the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake and before the play began the actors stood together and did the same blah, blah…acknowledge traditional territory…blah, blah…unceded lands…blah, blah…stewardship of the land. I was so surprised I didn’t know what to say. Paid $120 a seat to have some know-nothing actors go all pc on us.

    I’ll be ready next time.

26. You want information about giving land back to Aboriginals, study the Nisgaa Agrement.
    Blueprint for the segmentation of British Columbia. Race based natural resource allocation is well established with native only fisheries and hunting. Stewards of the land is the most sanctimonious term ever. That sentiment just isn’t supported by the facts.