This is because you're looking at this issue in a vacuum and applying western forms of universalist thought to it.
When indigenous peoples talk about "owning" land they probably arent talking about it in terms of anglo "ownership" through a law and contracts. I have no clear understanding of what they actually mean but its clear they arent speaking in anglo legal terms. Furthermore, im pretty sure they also dont want any sort of "ethnostate", because why would they want a "state" or consider shit like "ethnicity" the way anglos do?
Also its ironic how they were all genocided and driven of their ancestral lands by crackers who declared such "terra nullis" and established white ethnostates.
I have no clear understanding of what they actually mean
Then why are you speaking for them? I’ve been around and spoken to plenty of rez folks around where I live and they are every bit as capable of being greedy capitalist shitheads as any white person. This comes across as some kind of “noble savage” romanticism.
Please specify where I said that indigenous conceptions of land back are somehow better than the anglo legalist contract based system to substantiate your "noble savagery" claim.
Im saying shit because im confident enough to admit i dont know what they mean, and thus not make any unfounded anglo idealist claims about landback creating "muh ethnostates" and how akshually nobody should own land because "muh terra nullis". Notice how those arguments are colonist projection and how I never said the indigenous peoples do not have the capacity to be exploitative capitalists.
This is because you're looking at this issue in a vacuum and applying western forms of universalist thought to it.
When indigenous peoples talk about "owning" land they probably arent talking about it in terms of anglo "ownership" through a law and contracts. I have no clear understanding of what they actually mean but its clear they arent speaking in anglo legal terms. Furthermore, im pretty sure they also dont want any sort of "ethnostate", because why would they want a "state" or consider shit like "ethnicity" the way anglos do?
Also its ironic how they were all genocided and driven of their ancestral lands by crackers who declared such "terra nullis" and established white ethnostates.
Then why are you speaking for them? I’ve been around and spoken to plenty of rez folks around where I live and they are every bit as capable of being greedy capitalist shitheads as any white person. This comes across as some kind of “noble savage” romanticism.
Please specify where I said that indigenous conceptions of land back are somehow better than the anglo legalist contract based system to substantiate your "noble savagery" claim.
Im saying shit because im confident enough to admit i dont know what they mean, and thus not make any unfounded anglo idealist claims about landback creating "muh ethnostates" and how akshually nobody should own land because "muh terra nullis". Notice how those arguments are colonist projection and how I never said the indigenous peoples do not have the capacity to be exploitative capitalists.