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Thank you for this perspective. You’ve put your finger on the deep clash of worldviews: one sees land, water, and air as sacred gifts to be cared for, while the other treats them as property to be claimed, divided, and controlled. The history of treaties in Canada shows how these views collided, agreements to share were reinterpreted as cessions of ownership.

In my own work, I describe sovereignty as the state’s claim to order land and people through symbols, laws, and institutions. But I also see the persistence of parasovereign orders—like kinship, indigeneity, language, and spiritual responsibility—that resist being reduced to property or ownership. Your comment reminds me that these alternate conceptions of order still carry a truth that empire never erased.
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sêkwêstkwân ᓭᑫᐧᐢᑎᑳᐧᐣ 4mo ago

I think that it all boils down to the right of kings. We all should know about the origin of kings. The people begged Samuel for a king. God said very clearly what you will get when you get a king and replace God with a king.

"10 Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. 12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. 16 Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle[c] and donkeys he will take for his own use. 17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. 18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”

So this king claims all the dirt, the water and the air! but the Lord will not answer you in that day.

The indigenous have no king. I want no King and I just pray that as i assume my sovereignty and take control of my world on the dirt that I have no king. I pray that the lord hears me!

And yes, The empire never erased it. It is written in my heart! I am descended from the Huguenot, the voyager and the Metis. My great great great great great Grandfather said, "I own myself.". We stand in the gap as the true rainbow people. Uniting the indigenous with the settlers to take back that which was stolen from us!

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Richard Martin 4mo ago

I respect your point of view. However, were the Aztecs, Maya and Incas also not indigenous? Didn't they have kings?

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sêkwêstkwân ᓭᑫᐧᐢᑎᑳᐧᐣ 4mo ago

I don't know. But if they did they could have the same result! Humans don't do well with power. I remember I to felt that power. I was working with an indigenous oil and gas company. And was about to have a huge payday when it never happened.

That little taste of power corrupted me! Lucky for me the Canadian government will never allow the indigenous to sell their own oil and I stayed poor. Now I am based in natural law and sovereignty and learned my lesson. If I ever sell our oil I will not be corrupted. My money will be used to generate local economy, through the use of our most beloved Made Beaver (1820)