Welcome to Country MELTDOWN: Aussies Say 'Enough!'

[Hol]

I have no idea where and if that line continues north into Canada.

Yeah, there is scant history. Natives of interior BC, E. Washington & N. Idaho are connected by a river system and a language called Interior Salish. We are the salmon people because we had much of the riverbeds for salmon spawning (unlike the Atlantic salmon, Pacific salmon only return once to their original stream bed, to spawn and die).

Our boundary was from mid interior BC, south to Nez Perce lands; east to the Flathead tribe in Montana and west to the Yakama tribe.

 

[Hol]

You have no idea.


This mostly paleface is out of here.

You can do what I do, stop sympathizing with native Americans. God used the good ole US lands to ultimately bless Israel. No harm no foul to our indigenous peoples.

 

[Ronnie]

You can do what I do, stop sympathizing with native Americans. God used the good ole US lands to ultimately bless Israel. No harm no foul to our indigenous peoples.

How do you mean?

 

[Hol]

How do you mean?

I learned a quote but forgot who said it, anyhow it goes like this: “Sympathy is the worst abbreviation to which the human spirit is prone.”

On the other hand, we all need to show compassion and empathy to any suffering people. The US government cripples people when they bring them into dependency with handouts.

There are loud voices of some black Americans who claim they are owed reparations from slavery. I don’t agree. Many black Americans do not want that type of sympathy.

Did you hear King Charles when he addressed the Canadian parliament and started his comments with a land acknowledgment to prior natives? From what I understand that’s a growing custom for public speaking in Canada. One person in Canada I read about recently was fired because she objected to the new requirement that she had to give a land acknowledgment prior to her public comments.

The best thing that happened to both native Americans and black slaves is Jesus. He restores human dignity.

There will be every sort of tribe in Heaven, even their languages, but only Israel has been blessed by God to keep her language for about 5,000 years on earth.

 

[Hol]

Related:

On land acknowledgments, some Indigenous advocates are ambivalent​

By Brett Bundale The Canadian Press
Posted January 28, 2019 10:52 am

Canada’s growing embrace of Indigenous land acknowledgments appears to have left some First Nations advocates ambivalent about whether they are a form of reconciliation – or institutional hypocrisy.

The remarks, recognizing the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and their traditional territories, have become increasingly ubiquitous at the start of school days, conferences, ceremonies, and other events.
…

“It’s become meaningless and patronizing,” says Lynn Gehl, an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe from the Ottawa River Valley.

On land acknowledgments, some Indigenous advocates are ambivalent | Globalnews.ca

Canada's growing embrace of Indigenous land acknowledgments appears to have left some First Nations advocates ambivalent about whether they are a form of reconciliation - or institutional hypocrisy.

globalnews.ca

Personally I believe that God has plans for lands. We can all feel sorry for groups and tribes that get displaced in this fallen world. As believers we should avoid taking our empathy across the line to empty virtue signaling.

 

[Margery]

Ours is so extreme that for an online Microsoft team meeeting they do the acknowledgement ?

Last time i checked, the Aborigines didn't own digital land as well, it's gone way too far sadly

I watch 2 different Aussie gals with chronic illness. One is slavishly religious in her incantation of thanks to the Aboriginal land stuff- I ff thru that figured that she's a lefty anyway and get onto what she's actually good at. The other one is a Christian and I don't hear it from her ever but she's kind of a buck the tide sort to begin with and she suddenly stopped posting a year ago. Hoping she didn't get a strike from YT for not following the Aussie politically correct and woke stuff. But her illness is more likely to have made it impossible to continue.