16 Replies to “This Land Is Our Land”

  1. Anyone in BC who could not see this coming was asleep at the wheel. Make no mistake this was an NDP and Federal Liberal creation where, to gain votes with the urban class, they showered largesse and rights on the Coville Confederated Tribes and also the U.S. Lakota Sioux. When the Colville opened up their Nelson office I was amused to read that the Colville Nation outnumbers the local Kootenay and probably the Okanagan nation combined. Because Eby and gang were falling over themselves to confer rights on the aggrieved it was self evident what that would include. So the fact that the Colville now want Columbia River Treaty money and anything else they can get is no surprise. The losers here will be the taxpayers.

  2. So apparently someone is living on land someone lived on before. Who would have thought…. Other than we all do.

  3. This issue causes one to ask all sort of bizarre “Canadian” questions such as:

    1. which group is more virtuous? (i) the natives hailing from the ever-benevolent, peace-loving (and peace-keeping), Most Multicultural Country On Earth or (ii) the natives of the crypto-fascist, warlike, Imperialistic AmeriKKKa?

    2. Or to turn it around, have the natives hailing from the ever-benevolent, peace-loving (and peace-keeping), Most Multicultural Country On Earth) suffered LESS and hence are LESS VIRTUOUS (virtue is to be attained via suffering and victimization) than (ii) the natives of the crypto-fascist, warlike, Imperialistic AmeriKKKa?

    Bonus question: how many decolonization activists can dance on the head of a pin?

    We are cursed to live in “interesting” times

  4. I think the “nations” should settle the issue by fighting it out as in the glorious days prior to the colonizing, residential school gulag running, slavery ending, civilization and technology bringers – made agreements to give them welfare forever.

    1. Perhaps one of the chiefs involved will complain of dreaming about a white buffalo stomping him and his cohorts into the ground. Interpreted as welfare cheques lost.

    2. The only fighting these days is in court and since the judges have been appointed by our political masters our Indian brothers always win. In B.C. this started way back in the Harcourt era after a smashing supreme court victory that erased aboriginal title in B.C. was appealed by none other than the Harcourt government in a motion to restore aboriginal title. Of course Harcourt won.

      Since then Horgan and Eby have insisted that Treaty Lands, where aboriginal title was extinguished by treaty, should also have title. Sure enough the B.C. government took that to court and was victorious again in restoring title, which could have huge ramifications throughout Canada. Meanwhile the feds have given the Lakota Sioux of Sitting Bull and Little Bighorn fame rights to Canadian taxpayer largesse in an amount yet to be determined. So Canadian taxpayers, other than potentially paying the Colville Confederated Tribes, may also be paying the Lakota in the U.S. – you literally can’t make this stuff up.

      1. BC Justice Allan McEachern’s decision should have remained and instead his wise ruling has been excised from history and replaced with “progressive” apartheid. I take it you have read Mel Smith’s “Our Home or Native Land”.

        1. John I have not read Mel Smith’s take on this but I certainly was dismayed when Harcourt made overturning the McEachern ruling a signature part of NDP policy. I was even more disappointed in the voters who elected them and were incapable of seeing past the virtue signalling points and missing the consequences. Nevertheless here we are.

  5. Over my FN’s son in law’s dead body. He’ll not break the arrow with these “historic” tribes trying to grab their stack of $$$

  6. When I see stories like this I’m always reminded of philosopher Eric Mack’s quote that I read many years ago: “There was no tribe called ‘The Indians’ ” with whom Europeans were supposed to negotiate with.

  8. Why don’t they just solve the dispute like they did before whitey showed up, warfare, slavery, and cannibalism?

  9. Little bands of so-called indians are well known for not being the best neighbours, but have been empowered by supposed rights, except Haida. BC never signed treaties, so no one here has any valid indigenous claims. Borders did not exist legally in the new Dominion of Canada until 1867.

    Go talk to the Brits who agreed to establish the 49th parallel in 1818. Are we now issuing birds and deer passports?

    Are there any countries who have never been invaded?

    Sorry, the west had better stuff when we came, and still do.

    1. Did Hamas think that they could kill and mutilate 1200 people and have no consequences? I am sure Israeli soldiers are creating their own kind of justice and authorities aren’t going to stop it. Hamas started the war by killing lots of children. Hamas can stop it tomorrow by quitting the fight and releasing the hostages and any bodies and allowing Israel to patrol the border with Egypt.

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