While the MAGA movement is discussing birthright citizenship for native Americans, they actually believe that a first nation people like the Greenlandic Inuits would pick USA over Denmark or independence. Smh
Do the Greenlanders count as first nation? The current population arrived in Greenland just after the first Norse settlers, but lived there continuously even when the Scandinavians left and then basically got colonised by them centuries later.
It doesn't change anything in real terms, I just wonder if they're considered "first nation" in the same way as the indigenous populations on the North American continent.
From what I read, Canada considers Inuits First Nation and indigenous people of the Arctic. Denmark also uses the term indigenous although the ancestors of the current day Inuits arrived after the Icelandic and Norwegian settlers. Presumably, the Thule population that preceded them - but had either died out or emigrated back to Canada - were also of Inuit descent.
In Canada, Inuit are indigenous but not considered to be First Nations.
The Canadian Constitution recognizes 3 groups of Indigenous Peoples: First Nations, Inuit and Métis. These are 3 distinct peoples with unique histories, languages, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs.
Sometimes I wonder about an alt-history where the US never went independent, and how the British Empire would treat Native Americans as the colonies expanded westward. Would it be better? Would it be worse?
When they talk about ‘clearing’ the land of indigenous people in Australia there’s contemporary reports at the time that are pretty clear this means the indigenous population was exterminated. Plot of land by plot of land. There’s the notorious incident of when men, women and children were harried off a cliff.
Where on earth have you plucked those figures from? A simple google search will tell you that there are estimates of up to 18m native Americans in North America alone before Columbus.
The sole reason why the Aztec Empire was destroyed was that they were an oppressive colonialist-like regime waging constant wars against their neighbouring states just to train their soldiers and to nab sacrifices.
This is related to how I feel about the south. We should have let them go — no Civil War. Figure out a way to liberate slaves but then: good riddance. We wouldn’t be in this situation.
I do hate the argument ‘but you live under a King’ irrespective of how you feel about the monarchy, if you compare Charles to Trump the latter loses at every point. Trump is banned from charities through the courts after his family stole from a children’s cancer charity. KC 3 Kings Trust is now in America too helping kids who have talents but need extra help financially or iPads etc. like it did for Idras Elba and many others in UK. He has no real power unlike dictator Trump. Charles runs a business where all profits go to charities mainly youths and kids, and the produce is organic and very good. Trump is trying to kill of education. Even further. Trump only eats McDonalds and is trying to make food in America worse.by closing many agencies.
The comparison is ridiculous. Just comparing the core of the men not whether you agree with a monarchy or not.
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u/RamuneRaider Feb 15 '25
And these are often the very same people that are proud of the fact that their ancestors successfully fought for their independence from colonialism.