Whose Land Is It, After All?

Whose Land Is It, After All?

The difficulty with apologies is that at some point someone’s going to take you at your word. If we claim that we’re living on unceded – which is to say stolen – land, it seems inevitable that the land will be demanded back. This is no longer in the esoteric realm of academic discourse, or emotionalist sentimentality. Archaic treaties are very difficult, if not practically impossible to apply in a nation radically changed from when they were fir…