I’d love to ask these people doing the land acknowledgment why they don’t find the tribe that was on their land before and give it back. Or ask them what tribe the most recent tribe conquered. Land acknowledgments are so pointless
What's funny about doing in in the same speech about slavery is that most of Canada never saw slavery except those owned by the injuns. Nowhere west of Ontario saw European slaveowners.
Exactly. Doesn’t stop them though. Just like when I try to tell people slavery was common world wide for most of history. I just get the response that American slavery was the worst.
FUN FACT: York was renamed “Toronto”, reviving the old Injun-derived name tkaronto (“where there are trees standing in the water”), on March 6, 1834, just 5 months before slavery was officially abolished throughout the empire (August 1, 1834, when the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 came into force).
So Toronto wasn't even named Toronto before the law to abolish slavery was actually passed.
I was curious so I looked it up, the land was purchased and ceded by the red indians. This bullshit is like someone answering their iPhone, "I acknowledge this phone used to be the property of Apple Inc. and was assembled in China by Chinese."
I’d love to ask these people doing the land acknowledgment why they don’t find the tribe that was on their land before and give it back. Or ask them what tribe the most recent tribe conquered. Land acknowledgments are so pointless
What's funny about doing in in the same speech about slavery is that most of Canada never saw slavery except those owned by the injuns. Nowhere west of Ontario saw European slaveowners.
Exactly. Doesn’t stop them though. Just like when I try to tell people slavery was common world wide for most of history. I just get the response that American slavery was the worst.
They never do. Its always performative.
FUN FACT: York was renamed “Toronto”, reviving the old Injun-derived name tkaronto (“where there are trees standing in the water”), on March 6, 1834, just 5 months before slavery was officially abolished throughout the empire (August 1, 1834, when the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 came into force).
So Toronto wasn't even named Toronto before the law to abolish slavery was actually passed.
I was curious so I looked it up, the land was purchased and ceded by the red indians. This bullshit is like someone answering their iPhone, "I acknowledge this phone used to be the property of Apple Inc. and was assembled in China by Chinese."
Same thing in Vancouver