tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899412892057690390.post1357400841518751856..comments2024-01-03T19:31:59.663-05:00Comments on Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Canada still holding out on aboriginal treatyBlastFurnacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561725837264524099noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899412892057690390.post-2800994486095365562009-11-17T22:12:25.021-05:002009-11-17T22:12:25.021-05:00Canada was made on the treaties, its bittersweet t...Canada was made on the treaties, its bittersweet to those who only want their way. If native people were not tucked away so that europeans could enjoy the fruits of the land.... moreover being unmolested by savages, yeah right! Get a history lesson and you wouldn't be bellie-aching about half truths. Native do not own the land anyways, title is vested in the crown! Treaties are about exchangeCMaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02569436119187392243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899412892057690390.post-65371481137901234082009-10-20T13:11:50.476-04:002009-10-20T13:11:50.476-04:00Jennifer: Totally agree.
Anon: There are some ...Jennifer: Totally agree.<br /><br />Anon: There are some native communities in various parts of Europe -- such as the Sami in Norway, Sweden and Finland and parts of Russia. It's a bit harder to define the term for the British Isles unless one could prove a lineage to before the Norman Conquest (although I'm just guessing there). Palestine / Israel: Probably the Bedouins. Western BlastFurnacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02561725837264524099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899412892057690390.post-57660528948749764422009-10-20T11:42:38.839-04:002009-10-20T11:42:38.839-04:00some Latin American countries have had their land ...<i>some Latin American countries have had their land claims processes thrown up in the air as natives have asserted their aboriginal title</i><br /><br />Two Canadian mining companies, BFC Construction and Agra-Monenco,<br />received $18-million from Export Development Canada to build a dam in Colombia which submerged over 7,400 hectares of old-growth forest and the homes of 411 indigenous Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899412892057690390.post-16653929418143549692009-10-20T11:12:10.415-04:002009-10-20T11:12:10.415-04:00First off the U.N. can mind it's damn business...First off the U.N. can mind it's damn business, this is Canada and we can solve our own problems. Yes the land claims system is a joke in this country but aboriginals can share in the blame. The land claim going on in Caledonia by the Six Nations reserve should never have gone this far it was ruled on 5 different occasions and every single time it was proven that Six Nations has no right to austinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16837199356153099022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-899412892057690390.post-82399730817297298552009-10-20T10:55:38.869-04:002009-10-20T10:55:38.869-04:00I remember John Ralston Saul talking about how man...I remember John Ralston Saul talking about how many great Aboriginal leaders in this country have wasted decades of their lives going up against the land claims process. Imagine how much better this country would be if they were freed from this Sisyphean task so they could just be leaders - for all of us.Jennifer Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14610902519752808810noreply@blogger.com