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Put me in coach @AylanX! There is a hard disconnect between the actual treaties that the Mi’kmaq, Great Lakes nations, and Métis forced through strength of arms and today’s “reconciliation moment”.
And it is this: no indigenous person in the history of this place ever wanted large numbers of non-indigenous Canadians (NICs) to live here, not bc of isolationism or pettiness but bc they knew than,
as now that NICs would steal from, rape, and murder them w disproportionate vigour. On the other hand the British, later Canadian, governments never WANTED to live peacefully w FNMI people and tried over and over
