It’s anyone’s guess as to what this latest apology entails, but I’m sure it includes large monetary payments. What’s more bizarre is that the recipients didn’t originate in Canada, but in the United States.
As detailed in this more balanced article, the Sioux and Lakota were properly considered refugees, not original inhabitants.
The government appears to have granted these refugee-American-Indians full rights under Section 35, meaning that multi-billion-dollar land claims and reparation demands are imminent. Many Indigenous speakers at the press conference stated that the Dakota/Lakota and other tribes were already on their traditional lands when they escaped into Canada, a fact disputed by the foregoing evidence from the official North West Mounted Police history.
“Refugees”? As the land was already “occupied” by other tribes, wouldn’t they be considered “colonialists”?
One of the claims made by the aggrieved tribes is that Canada was part of their territory in the first place, so the occupation of said lands by other tribes must have been equally illegitimate.
The upshot as the writer points out is that Custer’s command was actually wiped out by Canadians.
This narrative gets more convoluted by the second.
“Claims” by “aggrieved tribes” aren’t worth a pitcher of warm spit. Great to not have a written language so you can make up any crap you want.
Fleeing the US Army and heading north of the 49th for safety. That makes you a refugee. Staying rather than returning still makes you a refugee.
This “apology” is just another of the rooster lollipop’s tax money laundering schemes.
For those with no imagination to understand what an RL is.
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They killed close to 1,000 American civilians and escaped to Canada. They weren’t refugees. They were war criminals. They should have been returned to the US for execution, trial optional. Unfortunately there were no troops in western Canada in 1862 to return them. As a result they were able to steal land from Canadian Indians and likely killed a crap load of them in the process.
Much the same thing happened with the Six Nations. Many fled their traditional lands in upstate New York after the American Revolutionary War, rightfully fearing vengeance from the Revolutionaries on account of their support of the Crown in that war. Upon arrival in Canada, they were given Crown grants on the Grand River and Tyendinaga in Ontario and Akwasasne in Quebec, because they had no traditional lands on the Canadian side of the border. Put another way, if they had traditional lands here, they wouldn’t have needed the Crown grants.
Of course their war parties had many times entered Canada in the past, but this was understood to be invasion, not settlement.
Yet we are routinely (and IMO dishonestly) told here in Kingston ON, that this is traditional Haudenosenee land. Which it wasn’t because the Mississauga, a sub-nation of the Ojibwe, lived here in the late 1700s, not the Mohawks the the other Six Nations. Indeed much of the land granted to the Iroquois was in fact purchased by the Crown from the Mississaugas.
Maybe the argument is: if you invade someone else’s traditional land often enough, it becomes your traditional land? Or maybe the claim is nothing more than a power grab or a claim for victimhood status.
Have the mississauga’s been paid multiple times for those land grants as well? They’ve managed to get paid at least 3 times for their lands near Toronto.
One recent theme by the Sioux is whining about how the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore is sacred Sioux land. I guess it is sacred because they had to kill a crapload of other Indians to take the area only 100 years before Custer took it from them. In early contact history the Sioux lived in Wisconson and Minnesota. Any other places that they are currently living, they colonized.
I struggle to understand how nomadic tribes can lay claim to anything. The situation was always dynamic, with tribes constantly moving around and displacing one another.
The Sioux were the only tribe that ever claimed that the Black Hills were sacred. Other tribes in the region never saw it that way.
As for how they determined it to be sacred, that reminds me of the Holy Grail segment where a peasant states that King Arthur cannot claim to be king “just because some watery tart hit you over the head with a sword”.
The Sioux and Dakota invaded canada, in an attempt to escape the US Army, and now want reparations and land?
Why don’t we just demand that all of north america get returned to the Clovis people, who the various later tribes murdered?
Hahahahahahahahahaha, ancient Indian chant.
A key statement is:
“His roof will be our floor. We will ask for more and we will never stop,”
Thus unless it is stopped, it will never stop. Shoveling money into a bottomless hole will not make them like you any more nor will it encourage them to become self sufficient