Re: Caledonia
I am befuddled by the way the natives are conducting themselves in the land debate in Caledonia.
Historically, when a nation is visited and then overwhelmed by immigration numbers, the home nation cedes to the majority. I believe we have done everything possible in the last 200 or so years to assuage the peoples of this land. We cannot debate the past decisions of our forefathers, on both sides of this issue, any more than we can give back lands that have been settled by our nation of Canadians.
Having to rely on what history we have documented, we can only assume we have done all that was necessary to appease the nation's people. If we went back in time to the first landed immigrants of this great nation, and reconquered the Indian nations, hoarded them all into small reserves with no rights, or worse yet, eliminated them from this plot of land as a usurped people, we wouldn't be going through this recourse now of verbal history.
Our forefathers gave our new-found peoples as much as was agreed to by the natives' forefathers.
It's a done deal. Let's move on, let's agree to disagree on the past, let the natives hunt and fish on the land they own now, let us all come together to listen and respect the only justice system we have here, let the justice system proceed and let the laws of the people, native and non-native, coexist.
I'm sorry that Canada didn't remain an Indian land, but we are human, we branch out to find new frontiers. We coexist everywhere else in this world, why not in Canada?