I would add to my latter point: on this one issue, Australia and Canada followed a more similar path, and then you can argue that NZ and the US followed another (sort of)…
Which I think has to do with the relative development level of the civilizations in question.
The Māori and like, the Huron, Iroquois, etc., had the civilizational/technological know-how to fight back, and then they were able to “adapt” relatively well into the mainstream (particularly Native Americans).
Whereas for the Abos and the Inuits and the like, that… Didn’t occur, and they, even now, refuse to assimilate fully, which results in… What we have here.
I know a large number of Abos, and one (extremely entitled) Native Canadian bloke. The difference between the indigenous who see themselves as “Australian first, Indigenous second” and those who refuse to do so, is… Enormous.
Unfortunately the latter ones tend to get all the gibs, though.
I would add to my latter point: on this one issue, Australia and Canada followed a more similar path, and then you can argue that NZ and the US followed another (sort of)…
Which I think has to do with the relative development level of the civilizations in question.
The Māori and like, the Huron, Iroquois, etc., had the civilizational/technological know-how to fight back, and then they were able to “adapt” relatively well into the mainstream (particularly Native Americans).
Whereas for the Abos and the Inuits and the like, that… Didn’t occur, and they, even now, refuse to assimilate fully, which results in… What we have here.
I know a large number of Abos, and one (extremely entitled) Native Canadian bloke. The difference between the indigenous who see themselves as “Australian first, Indigenous second” and those who refuse to do so, is… Enormous.
Unfortunately the latter ones tend to get all the gibs, though.