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[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 103 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Holy shit this is the first peice of news out of alberta I've been happy to see in a hot minute.

Absolutely based

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 94 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not news out of Alberta, it's news out of sturgeon lake Cree nations land..Alberta is just squatting.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Where my Clovis people at?

[–] CanadaPlus 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Just to pre-empt where this is going, sure, the Earth was here before all of us. But unlike the Clovis people, First Nations are still here and suffering from what my ancestors did, which is why that leads to misunderstanding when emphasised.

[–] fnord@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sure, but they aren’t the people who were there centuries ago… those people are long dead. And anyway the Cree themselves weren’t the original settlers of Alberta, they expanded westward because of the fur trade and took a lot of land from the Blackfoot, Stoney and Dene people….

The Cree have no more right to the land than anyone else born in Alberta.

[–] CanadaPlus 0 points 1 month ago

I mean, you can state that, but you haven't actually supported it. And that's before you get into the fact our legal system says they do.

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13000 years ago. You are off topic.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have a house in Alberta. I wonder if there's a way to cede my property back to the Treaty nations when I die... They deserve it more than my relatives do.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago

You may want to contact the First Nations band office closest to you (or another band office of your choosing) and speak to them about it.

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

First Nations, Inuit and Metis people will save the rest of us from idjits like Smith and Drug Fraud.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

We have a huge amount to learn from the First Nations and the French about sovereignty. It will also be quite interesting to see how the 51st state bullshit goes over with them.

Can't rely on other people to do the work.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 1 month ago

It's a hell of a way of repaying us for all the nasty shit we did.

[–] HRP58@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month ago

Smith speaks for a minority only and the press loves it and feeds it. The silent majority are 100% Canada.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wow

Based Based Based Based Based Based

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh what is Danielle Smith up to now? Fuck.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Successfully riling up a separation movement

I left Alberta 8 years ago because I was unhappy. Why can't these stupid motherfuckers do it too?

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where to? I wish I could afford BC...

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I moved to Victoria but it was really difficult yeah

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Hey! Me too!

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you have an article with background to share? :)

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

What info would you like, ie: on the treaties, or the SCoC rulings, etc?

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dope! I wonder if there's actual legal force here.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago

There is. The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled multiple times on Indigenous land rights and, for the most part, have ruled in favour of the treaties with First Nations communities and people.

Smith doesn't have a leg to stand on here.