Tired of the "We Stole Their Land" Rhetoric I keep seeing

 Date: January 30, 2025

    Every time you turn around nowadays, someone brings up the argument that Canada is built on "stolen land".  People say we "stole land from the Indigenous".  No one has shown, to my knowledge, any kind of paperwork or deeds that shows the Indigenous own the particular land that's being questioned.  The consensus is that "they were here first".   Yeah, I'm sorry, but that does not depict ownership.  Show me the deeds that said they owned the land.

    I don't care who "settled first" - be it Indigenous peoples, or European Settlers from back in the day.  Back then, people went to a body of land and found a location and settled upon it.  There were no deeds or titles, so therefore, no one "owned" the land.

    I am sick and tired of people saying we owe the Indigenous. I'm sick of the talk of how "they were slaughtered". What about the white European settlers who were trying to settle on new land that the Indigenous "slaughtered"?  No one cares about what happened to the white people.

    I wish people would understand how progress works, that we have moved beyond the point of going on to a plot of land and staking claim. There is a process of how it works these days; and that is what we should be focusing on - period.  If there is a title land deed that says the land belongs to X, then Y should not be allowed or able to question the ownership. It should be simply "sorry, the deed says X owns it. You can speak with X to see if they wish to sell the ownership to you, but otherwise, ownership stands with X".   "But we were here first!!" uh.. that's not a valid argument in 2025.  Who settled first stopped mattering the moment land ownership deeds became a thing.

    Time to move on people. Time to grow up. Time to stop being so damned entitled.