Background : at 1:20 - https://youtube.com/watch?v=ih2RLpJ1ikU&feature=share
we see Microsoft employees apologize to 20 Indigenous tribes for being in Seattle.
Please correct me if I am wrong - This is why I feel every American should be disgusted:
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The purpose of a sincere apology is promise future reparations of some kind
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Microsoft themselves has NO intention of paying these reparations (despite being in a perfect position to give back any land they feel guilty about)
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The expectation is that YOU will have to repay BIPOC to assuage Microsoft's guilt....
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If I wanted to be held responsible for historic crimes of my people I would go and live in North Korea - I hear they love that shit.
Southern Ontario is the best.
The governor general bought all the land here from the Mississauga at market value. He then assigned the Haldimand Grant to Joseph Brant's Iroquois because they fought for the British against the Americans but lost their territory when the war ended. The rest went to European settlers, mostly British.
The Mississauga only had lived there for 80 years or so. They moved in after the Iroquios drove out the Huron over fur hunting and then went back home.
So we acknowledge the Mississauga, the people who never fought for the land and made millions selling it.
And no one has any idea of the actual history (which is super interesting, btw), just "white man stole land from the indians".
This came up in Montreal recently. After the Canadiens hockey team acknowledged they were on traditional Mohawk land, several city and provincial politicians pointed out that the inhabitants of the area at the time of first contact were Iroquoians, who had vanished without a trace by the time the city was founded a century later.
The Mohawk were resettled here from upstate New York after they were belligerents on the losing side of the Revolutionary War, which is a very traditional way to lose your land, even among the Indians.
The Mohawk leadership were pretty pissed off that evil colonizers would dare to bring up facts.
Hey, at least your lot had written language and worked out how to use guns…
Sort of makes it easier to track things down, rather than heebie geebie oral history “Dreamtime” shit…
Our lot literally had not developed a concept of linear time, which makes tracing this stuff, or working out who actually belonged to what tribe, or indeed true tribal boundaries (apart from say, “Dat tree over dere”) almost literally impossible…
Yay for Stone Age levels of development a mere 250 years ago! Woohoo! 🙄
An alien civilization, observing our little rock from orbit, would in all likelihood, using our own system of classification, question why your lot is designated homo sapiens sapiens, and not a close relation of homo sapiens like the neanderthals or denisovans.