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Let me just preface this by saying that the literal cultural genocide Canada did to indigenous population was unbelievably horrible. But I am adressing only the part of the colonization in which we "stole their land"
I really do not get the argument of saying that we are living on "stolen land", as it is sure that whatever tribe lived on that land before had surely "stolen" that land from an other human group before, probably through warfare. The same tribe that lived there before probably did awful things to kill the othera that were there before and get that land for themselves. Indigenous people weren't a big group that all loved each other, they were engaging in warfare like everybody else on Earth
Almost every land on Earth is stolen. We "stole" that land like every nation has done before.
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Edit: I probably wasn't clear in my point. I 100% acknowledge that we should recognize all the harm we made: my point is really specifically about the usage of the word "stolen". I'm gonna repeat an argument I said in the comment.
If someone steals a car, then someone steals it from him, and then I steal it from it's last owner, it would be pretty ridiculous for that last owner to act like a victim and tell everybody I stole his car, right? Maybe if I beat him up in the process, then it wouldn't be ridiculous to tell everyone, but what would be wrong with my act would be beating him up, not the stealing itself
These weren't really nations, so it's hard to hold any non-specific group accountable in the same way we hold nations accountable.
Furthermore, just because something bad happened doesn't mean it's okay for bad things to keep happening. If these nations want to hold themselves up as being moral, then the moral thing to do is not only apologize but to make their lives better than when they were found. Why? Because we can't prove that any specific group of people would or would not progress in any specific way--so by exerting control over them (particularly through the lens of structural oppression) you have essentially removed their ability to co-exist. To clarify, they have no choice but to submit to the whim of a government that insists they aren't doing anything wrong by doing something that we all agree is/was bad.
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