The Purpose of Land Acknowledgements

The Canadian province of British Columbia is informing home owners that they don’t have the right to their homes because the land was recently adjudicated as belonging to a tribe:

The purpose of land acknowledgements have become clear.

9 thoughts on “The Purpose of Land Acknowledgements

  1. Yeah, one group of silly buggers are too stupid to realize that the other group of silly buggers fondly imagines that they will be recognized as landed aristocrats. History tells us how that generally ends, but then neither group has any historical understanding because the HBC proclamation of Rupert’s Land precedes the Royal Proclamation of 1763. Despite being impoverished Canada actually bought Rupert’s Land from the HBC for that reason ;-D

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  2. The Law of Merited Impossibility strikes. Just you wait. Only the people who really “deserve” it will lose their homes. If you have the “right” opinions, you will be allowed to stay. I would be curious to see what these notices do to property values. You can ruin people even without evicting them.

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    1. It’s the property values, it’s the stress of not knowing if the house on which you are paying mortgage is even yours. It’s not being able to sell because who’ll want to buy it? And it’s putting off anybody who wants yo buy housing anywhere because any land can be declared indigenous at any point. It’s the destruction of home ownership as an idea. “You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy” in practice.

      Whoever came up with this is genius. Get people to repeat land acknowledgements like trained monkeys, get them habituated to the idea that the property is not theirs, and you can simply take it away. What’s not to like?

      And nobody is noticing. There are no protests in Canada. Everybody is sitting there, patient and acquiescent. Truly, this is a masterclass in robbing these absolute idiots if everything.

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  3. “don’t have the right to their homes because the land was recently adjudicated as belonging to a tribe”

    I will now use my awesome powers of divination to predict where this is headed. Not maybe in this particular case and not right away but I can dimly perceive the outlines of the future….

    the tribe says people can continue to live in their (that is the tribe’s) homes. The tribe then leases the land to the Canadian equivalent of blackrock and voila! the homeowners are now renters in perpetuity!

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    1. And the best part is that this can be done to anybody at any time. This was the whole purpose of all these Indigenous Days and imaginary mass graves. If you protest in any way again this despoliation, you become a genocidal maniac who has no place in society.

      I can’t wait for some indigenous tribe to come for the land on which my land acknowledgement obsessed university stands.

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      1. Not in EUROPE, I hope.

        Having said that, just last week in Spanish class I had a lot of difficulty persuading fellow students, in particular one who is an emergency doctor, no less, that we too are indigenous to our land. In her blissful ignorance she found it hard, almost impossible to accept the idea, since in her mind the term “indigenous” only applies to non-Europeans.

        I wanted to ask her where she thought she and her family had come from, but I forbore myself.

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        1. A guy who arrived in Britain from North Africa is indigenous to Britain. But a guy whose ancestors have lived on the island since prehistoric times is not.

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          1. Well, we can live, and even enjoy, multi-ethnic societies because given time humans do tend to intermarry. But functional multi-cultural societies are much more difficult to manage, even those like we are own are definitely failing the West. And historic misinformation and deliberate lies often supported by hand wringing “sympathy” only make matters worse. Historically, humans settled land settlement by war and threats of war, doesn’t matter if that it was ultimately settled by Cowichan clubs or by British cannon.

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