Gute Absichten wurden schlecht – Wie Kanadas Versöhnung mit seinem indigenen Volk schief ging

Empty words and reconciliation statements or land acknowledgment actions without real justice being done

AKA : corruption enabler

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Facts. Good article.

Indigenous land claim panic, right up there with Satanic Panic and the Red Scare for largely benign things blown way out of proportion by bad actors hoping to leverage the controversy to their benefit.

Concerning how many different articles I’ve seen pop up in international and American-owned Canadian media over the last year seemingly meant to sow division among Canadians. I guess we’re easier to handle if we’re distracted fighting each other.

Be vigilant of people trying to exploit your fear to their ends, particularly when we know Russia is waging an information war on the West and the US is trying to destabilize us.

David Frum has some pretty strong biases and even though he’s distanced himself from the extremism of the Far Right, his political views are still deeply entrenched conservatism.

This article blithely ignores the facts of the cases in favour of pandering to the fear mongering nature of the current conservative media. It glosses over the fact that these cases have been ongoing for decades, and prior to that it had been illegal for the first nations to use the court systems to get the justice they deserve.

He also tries to make it seem that the history being called upon is multiple centuries old rather than a mere hundred years. It paves over the claims that the first nations were making as the cities they are now winning cases against were still being build. The foundations of these cities were literally laid over their objections.

The governments, at all levels, have had multiple opportunities to deal with this over the past 100 years, each one chose to push it up the hill, and now it’s coming back down, gathering debris with it and the ones responsible for putting it there are nowhere to be seen. So, it’s up to the current generation to deal with it, and like we have done with so many other issues that we had nothing to do with creating, our only choice is to face it head on, take our beatings, pick up what’s left at the end and move on to the next problem our parents and grandparents built for us.

This is not about left vs right politics, this is about agreements, pacts and treaties that were made, unmade, broken, entered into in bad faith, or processes that were simply ignored by the incumbent governments. BC, from it’s outset, took on the ‚indian problem‘ unto itself, stipulating that it would handle the negotiations and agreements as it saw fit, and then simply forced nations into areas it saw as worthless, appropriated their villages and built cities. This is about a government that said one thing, then did another, and now we are facing the fallout.

I know some members of first nations who actually agree with David though. They are a small, and not particularly vocal group, but there is a population who want to just move past it. They see the damage that it’s doing all around and don’t want any part of that pain. But the government created this, and they have a duty to deal with it, one way or the other.

Turns out the good intentions were only on one side. Let that be a warning for the future of how to deal with reclamation politics. 

The title is wrong. It is actually a confusion that the FN like to maintain to be able to ask for more and more. The land claims have nothing to do with the residential schools period or with the reconciliation but with some treaties signed centuries ago with Britain and France , the colonial powers of those times. Those treaties only mentioned  the permission to hunt,fish,self-govern and continue their way of life which is not at all the same with land ownership rights  they are claiming today. The second thing is that they signed those treaties with foreign powers not with Canada. For someone  crying 24/7 about colonialism isn’t it a bit weird that today they are trying to use exactly the colonial treaties for their claims?

I’ll edit this just to add a rhetorical question – how can Canada be legally binded to respect a treaty  it has never signed?

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We’re running headlong to an ugly fight, and it won’t likely end well for the indigenous communities when voters en-mass turn against them.

Going to be 100% honest, this reconciliation an DRIPA have probably sent back Idigenous and Canadians back decades. Who knew that messing with property rights would be a hell of a bad idea.

And before those who are supportive of reconciliation attack me, what happened in the past is in the past, but a lot of those losing their properties right now to these reconciliations are people born in Canada, they’re no more or less native to Canada then those who’s blood lines go back a couple hundred or a thousand years.

As someone who has family that’s Indigenous, if you were born on Canadian soil, you are equally as Canadian. Indigenous or not.

There was no world where you suddenly strip private property from people and not expect backlash from the general public.

DRIPA and Reconciliation are getting backlash just like how that article came out about DEI creating a lost generation of men in western countries that drove men to extremes on either sides.

Good intentions done poorly will often create worse circumstances.

DEI was just racism tidied up in a nice package.

Reconciliation and DRIPA and stripping private property is racism, because your taking land rights away from people because of their race and if they aren’t the „Right kind of people.“