Reply #145: That's being rather arbitrary. [View All]

Should Inuktitut have rights to land or citizenship in Mexico?

Cree to land in Brazil?

Aymara to territory in the Navajo Nation?

Or even Yemenis to citizenship in S. Korea?

And do they have the rights as a consequence of domination by people of mostly European-origin, or did they have the rights in 1491?

Your answers must be 'yes, yes, yes, yes, and "obviously in 1491".' I'd like to see the arguments for that. They'd be amusing.

"Western hemisphere" isn't the appropriate division. We could just as easily argue that the aboriginal San have rights to live in Saami territory based on that: Both in the same hemisphere, after all. Or decide that European aboriginals have a right to N. America because both Europe and N. America are in the northern hemisphere.

They have rights to their homeland, which I'll rather arbitrarily take as 'the territory they inhabited when all the internal warfare and migrations were squelched by outside domination, as modified by later fair treaties'. It seems to be the rational used by most people, and it's reasonable.