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  • British Columbia Turns Over State Parks to Indians

    From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Thu Apr 30 01:36:27 2026
    Wake up, y'all. Your country is being taken from you.


    https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2049510044245651456/vid/avc1/1080x1920/QNDcNk-MAbYpaosR.mp4



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  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Thu Apr 30 02:22:11 2026
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

    Wake up, y'all. Your country is being taken from you.

    https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2049510044245651456/vid/avc1/1080x1920/QNDcNk-MAbYpaosR.mp4

    Not as extreme as a land retitling... I've mentioned before that the
    Field Museum in Chicago once did a land acknowledgement stating that the
    museum sat on land for Potawatamie and other Algonquian tribes. Except
    that it's in one of Chicago's great lakefront parks, all of which are
    landfill. It was never Indian land.

    It's not like Indians had performed the upgrades and maintenance and conservation in B.C. parks. There is no moral title to land someone else
    had improved.

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  • From Rhino@3:633/10 to All on Thu Apr 30 23:41:50 2026
    On 2026-04-29 10:22 p.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

    Wake up, y'all. Your country is being taken from you.

    https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2049510044245651456/vid/avc1/1080x1920/QNDcNk-MAbYpaosR.mp4

    Not as extreme as a land retitling... I've mentioned before that the
    Field Museum in Chicago once did a land acknowledgement stating that the museum sat on land for Potawatamie and other Algonquian tribes. Except
    that it's in one of Chicago's great lakefront parks, all of which are landfill. It was never Indian land.

    It's not like Indians had performed the upgrades and maintenance and conservation in B.C. parks. There is no moral title to land someone else
    had improved.

    The current premier of BC, David Eby, has given me far left vibes for a
    while now. I strongly suspect him of making this happen but BC is a long
    way from here and I don't get much BC news normally. I'm sure Horny Goat
    could fill us in but he only checks in every couple of weeks these days.

    --
    Rhino

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  • From The Horny Goat@3:633/10 to All on Sun May 3 12:51:25 2026
    On Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:22:11 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
    <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

    It's not like Indians had performed the upgrades and maintenance and >conservation in B.C. parks. There is no moral title to land someone else
    had improved.

    On your last point that's true - back when I was a kid my grandfather
    was away on vacation and came home to find a house nearly finished
    building on a vacant lot he owned.

    If he had been a bastard he could have legally demanded the complete
    demolition of the house AND replanting of a dozen or so trees on his
    property that had been felled as part of the construction. Plus
    damages for having a 3' high sapling instead of a 40' tree. And the
    court would have supported him 110%. But having talked to the guy he
    realized the error was the contractor not his new neighbour.

    Since he was a decent guy he sold his lot to the neighbor who had
    built on the wrong lot - for about 3x what he had paid for it but this
    was the early 1960s and that was well under $10000 (At that time the neighborhood was being developed and my grandfather's place was the
    second house in the neighborhood - all that changed during the next
    5-7 years)

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