eyeball Posted March 9 Report Share Posted March 9 8 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said: If we must change the name, "Salish" would be appropriate since that was the dominant linguistic demographic for most of the south at least. What's the indigenous name for Earth I wonder? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herbie Posted March 10 Report Share Posted March 10 Earth. There is no single Indigenous language, so that's the only name every single Indigenous person knows. Lotusland Gold Mountain Rinse Poopert Bill's Puddle New Dhelta Foreskin James Tofu-No Hooterville Plenty of local nicknames, but none for the whole thing.... (got a spam call claiming to be Amazon, but the call display came from "mount Waddington"... about as middle of nowhere as one could possibly get let alone have a telephone exchange) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeball Posted March 10 Report Share Posted March 10 I ran the idea of Earth by a hereditary chief I know but got a little ahead of myself and mentioned then everyone could say they're from the same place. That took him aback a little and I said I get it, King Chuck would probably feel much the same way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perspektiv Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 On 3/9/2024 at 11:13 PM, herbie said: Rinse Poopert Perfect name for a proctologist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougie93 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 On 2/26/2024 at 12:38 AM, cougar said: I have always wondered where this "British Columbia" came from. Columbia is a country in South America. How it got its name "Columbia", I also do not know and do not care all that much. But how did part of Canada ended up being called Columbia ? Is it from the Columbia river, which was called Columbia by some explorer with very poor imagination? The Columbia river probably has an indigenous name, which if it reverts to, we may have to change the name of the province too. American Captain Robert Gray named the river after his ship the "Columbia", in 1792 "British Columbia" was to distinguish between the American Columbia and the British Columbia the Pacific Northwest Coast Indians all called it "The Big River" so they weren't particularly imaginary after all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paradox34 Posted April 18 Report Share Posted April 18 Personally I find the "First Nations" moniker not only offensive but laughable. Despite what "natives" would have us believe they did not spring from the ground like the rocks and tree's but immigrated here like everyone else. Call them "First Immigrants". Nation? A loose confederation of peoples with no common language, in most cases no written language, no anthropological achievement beyond existence whose "cultures" stagnated at a stone age level is not a "nation". I'm sick of governments pandering to the whining's of people saying we "stole" their land. Firstly, nothing was stolen. The monies paid to "native" groups over the years has bought this country 10x over. Second, the land wasn't theirs to begin with! Except for small area's there is no proof of residency. No, a yearly fishing or hunting trip to a particular area doesn't convey ownership. If it did my family should claim much of Northern Ontario and the Florida keys not to mention the travel corridors used! Except for small area's they can't demonstrate stewardship, the land was not cared for, improved, worked: it lay fallow. Finally, not to put too fine a point on it, but they were unable to defend a claim of ownership. The whole thing reeks of sour grapes. Now seeing the wealth available from the land various tribes are lining up to scream "mine". Why the courts humor these claims is disgusting. I might be able to entertain "native" land claims if they paid taxes like everyone else but no, they want autonomy. Last time I checked autonomy implies, self government and sufficiency. So why are we paying for everything? Why are native social issues our problem? It's time the government started treating "native" groups like the spoiled children they behave as! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aristides Posted Monday at 02:56 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 02:56 PM (edited) On 3/3/2024 at 7:56 AM, Perspektiv said: Might as well change Canada's name, to its original Iroquois spelling of Kanata while you're at it. Leave it to the woke, and we will be stripped of everything this country stands for, which is conveniently offensive. Did the Iroquois use our alphabet? Edited Monday at 02:59 PM by Aristides Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herbie Posted Monday at 08:56 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 08:56 PM On 4/17/2024 at 9:27 PM, paradox34 said: Personally I find the "First Nations" moniker not only offensive but laughable Spoken like a true "colonist". And exactly defined as such the more one reads your post. Exact, down to the detail description of pure colonial thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herbie Posted Monday at 09:00 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 09:00 PM BTW where's the outrage in the forum that they just "gave away" Haida Gwaii to the natives? Guess Fox News missed that so none of you knew.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paradox34 Posted Monday at 09:48 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 09:48 PM You do realize that the "First Immigrants" entire argument is the ultimate colonist credo... "We were here first". It's the same tired excuse used by the francophones in Quebec. We were here first, they weren't, so everyone should speak French! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herbie Posted Monday at 11:13 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 11:13 PM Describing it as an "excuse' only furthers my point. Digging yourself in deeper doesn't further yours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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