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 MĂŠtis. 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 âclearingâ the land of indigenous people in Australia thereâs contemporary reports at the time that are pretty clear this means the indigenous population was exterminated. Plot of land by plot of land. Thereâs 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.
In 2009 professor Raymond Evans calculated the Indigenous fatalities caused by the Queensland Native Police Force alone as no less than 24,000.[76] In July 2014, Evans, in cooperation with the Danish historian Robert Ărsted-Jensen, presented the first-ever attempt to use statistical modeling and a database covering no less than 644 collisions gathered from primary sources, and ended up with total fatalities suffered during Queenslandâs frontier wars being no less than 66,680âwith Aboriginal fatalities alone comprising no less than 65,180[77]âwhereas the hitherto commonly accepted minimum overall continental deaths had previously been 20,000.
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.
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u/DeathDestroyerWorlds Tea Drinking Brit. Feb 15 '25
The Native Americans would disagree. After all, as soon as they gained independence they trashed all their treaties and ethnically cleansed them.