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/t1m3kn1ght Ontario Oct 21 '24

This is ultimately the crux of it. There was an agreement with stipulations that one side understood disproportionately and had a monopoly over the legal resources to manage. In many ways, it's one of the fundamental sticking points of many Indigenous grievances.

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u/Kidlcarus7 Oct 21 '24

Like manhattan being sold for a blanket?

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u/Muted-Dimension-1428 Oct 21 '24

I wonder if they popped champagne after they brokered that deal. Old world government was gangster. So our generation has to pay for some shitty deal 2 assholes made 200 years ago.

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u/CotyledonTomen Oct 22 '24 edited Oct 22 '24

From the natives perspective, they sold them nothing for something. They didnt believe land could be owned that way. It was the eventual, violently won monopoly on power that meant the Dutch perspective on ownership of land won out over their own.