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posted 147 days ago by Ahaus667 147 days ago by Ahaus667 +46 / -0

Private property ownership erased by B.C. decision on native land claim

Do you own what you think you own? A recent British Columbia Supreme Court ruling on an indigenous land claim in Richmond, B.C. says you don’t. Canadian property owners can no longer claim to have inc

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– FellowCanuckIstan 3 points 146 days ago +3 / -0

I am loaded on popcorn, never liked BC, ver nice to vacation but I would live there due to the government.

And it's ironic that you have those tribes claiming different things now and you don't link these to the land acknowledgments and the genocidal history of these tribes against others. We know the ones that survived, not the ones that perished.

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– WeedleTLiar 6 points 146 days ago +6 / -0

I have a bit of a funny story about that.

I'm in Ontario and we do the stupid land acknowledgments as well. When we do, we specifically name the "Haudenashawnee" as the "traditional" owners.

Problem is, "Haudenashawnee" (ie Iroquois) aren't the traditional owners. All of southern Ontario was occupied by the Huron (Ashinabec) when Europeans arrived. The Iroquois went to war with them over beaver hunting (literally the Beaver Wars; they went as far south as Kansas, iirc) and drove them off the land. The Iroquois then hunted the beaver to near extinction, then left. Then another group, the Mississaugas, just walked in to the vacant space from where they were living (north of Lake Superior).

80 years later, the Americans revolted against the British. The Iroquois fought with the British but lost their land when the treaty was signed, so the British government bought all of southern Ontario from the Mississaugas and gave the Iroquois, under Joseph Brant, a nice chunk of it for them to settle.

So, today, the Ashinabec are fighting against the Haudenashawnee in the schools over who gets to get acknowledged.

In reality, nobody "owned" the land before Europeans arrived because absolutely no one here was advanced enough to have a formal concept of property ownership, much less land ownership.