tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post454926353013230273..comments2024-02-10T18:19:36.406-08:00Comments on Newspaper Rock: UN declaration = flat-earth policy?Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01478763837213733775noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-86497812976794208512009-10-05T23:21:43.851-07:002009-10-05T23:21:43.851-07:00This is the author of the column cited and I would...This is the author of the column cited and I would like to clarify some comments made by your resident Shmohawl. <br />No Shmohawk, I am not an "anti-Indian" (whatever that means.. in reality, this means anyone who disagrees with your views or other radical indigenous activists).<br />We do not advocate assimilation, trashing of treaty rights, indigenous rights, or reserves. You should actually provide evidence from all of these false statements. <br />None of our policy proposals call for ending treaties, Indian status, or alter Aboriginal title (In Canadian law, the constitutionally-recognized right of indigenous people to occupy their traditiona lands).Joseph Quesnelhttp://indigenousanalysis.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-84757687462015980792009-09-30T07:16:09.467-07:002009-09-30T07:16:09.467-07:00Quesnel is an "anti-Indian" who works fo...Quesnel is an "anti-Indian" who works for a right-wing special interest group in Canada. They advocate assimilation and the trashing of treaty rights, Indigenous rights, and reserves (reservations in the U.S.) under the guise of "equal rights." <br /><br />But you're right-on that he insinuates here - and in his other writings in the right-wing media in Canada - that Indians (and other Indigenous peoples in Canada such as Métis and Inuit) aren't 'real Native Americans.' <br /><br />I'm surprised he hasn't suggested that we go back to where we came from. Yet, I'm confidant he'll get there eventually given his apparently skewed understanding of history. ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29769707.post-51289098908217472552009-09-29T19:16:39.679-07:002009-09-29T19:16:39.679-07:00Claiming that Indians aren't in the mainstream...Claiming that Indians aren't in the mainstream is a subtle way of claiming that they aren't 'real Americans' and it's part of the 'otherization' process.Stephennoreply@blogger.com