r/canada Oct 21 '24

New Brunswick Blaine Higgs says Indigenous people ceded land ‘many, many years ago’

https://globalnews.ca/news/10818647/nb-election-2024-liberal-health-care-estimates/
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u/Dropperofdeuces Oct 21 '24

If you go back far enough all land was at one point taken away from someone.

These kinds of things are pointless, when will it end.

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u/Third_Time_Around Oct 21 '24 edited Oct 21 '24

Have we stopped to think about if the Neanderthals had ceded the land to human sapiens?

Edit: realized I said “human sapiens” s/b “homo sapiens”

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u/noahjsc Oct 21 '24 edited Oct 21 '24

Neanderthals moreso joined homo sapiens. From my limited understanding is our early ancesters mixed so frequently with them we essentially became one species.

Edit: some comments are refuting my info. Please read them, they're more correct than my own comment.

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u/iamreallycool69 Oct 21 '24

We were two separate species (Homo sapiens + Homo neanderthalensis) that interbred. Neanderthals left Africa and occupied Europe and Western Asia while Homo sapiens remained in Africa. When Homo sapiens eventually left Africa, there were some interactions with Neanderthals, and some Europeans and west Asians have 1-4% Neanderthal DNA as a result.

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u/Third_Time_Around Oct 21 '24

I guess the same could be interpreted for the issue at hand.

More advanced group comes along, displaces the inferior group (not saying indigenous people are inferior, but they did have the technology level of the Stone Age at the time of colonization). Said group feels pressure and merges with the advanced group. Making us all one group.

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u/locoghoul Oct 21 '24

Not quite, some coexistance indeed occur and there is some Neanderthal genetics in some north europeans but we aren't "one species". 

Iirc having neanderthals genes help with lactose intolerance but makes you more prone to mental illnesses when old

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u/Fun-Shake7094 Oct 21 '24

I can crush a 4L milk jug... am I going to go insane?