@lain excuuuuuse me PBS, but the dinosaurs were inhabitants there before the so-called "First Nations" or "indigenous" people. How can you say they were the original inhabitants? Ugh.
@Moon if it's their land then they should be able to do whatever they want with it.
Somewhat related: I remember reading about the legal system in some reservations when i was in high school, and I remember that I thought it was unjust that there would be a different system there than outside of it, because it all was 'america'. Of course by now I love this stuff. Reservations seems to me to be the perfect arenas to test out different legal and economic systems, I wonder why that's not happening much (or if it's happening, why it's rather unsuccessful).
@lain from an emotional standpoint the issue is they feel like european scientists are digging up their sacred ancestors bones to shit all over indian history
@lain i absolutely understand and empathize with this even though i have no respect for the validity of their oral tradition. science haas been used to justify treating indians badly and they are right to question its objectivity
@nosleep if they actually acknowledged it, they should give it back. If aborigines are still sovereign, the australian government should abdicate immediately.
@lain australian public-facing companies have been doing this for decades. especially nowadays it's unbearable. i took a flight a few months ago and the airline "acknowledged the original owners of the land" and "acknowledged that sovereignty has never been ceded" before we took off. ceded to who? the government's regulatory authority that even lets you exist in the first place? fuck off
@lain@Moon it isn't happening because there's usually bullshit laws preventing it. Here in Canada, until just recently the natives weren't even allowed to handle their own social services by law.
That’s only decades though. There is a particular instance where some brilliant folks decided to move around Mayan glyphs without recording the correct order, and losing/damaging several glyphs in the process.
@n3n3tl@lain for the last several decades you have to get permission from both indian tribes and the bureau of indian affairs and the bureau of land management.