Brickbat: Land Acknowledgement

A homeowner in British Columbia, Canada, who found what might be Indigenous human remains on their land, now faces huge legal, archaeological, and monitoring costs—well over $100,000 ($73,000 U.S.) and counting. Under Canadian provincial law, private landowners must pay to protect and investigate heritage sites with no government help or compensation. The Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc nation is not only claiming the property as a heritage site but also a surrounding buffer zone that affects other properties. Meanwhile, it isn't even clear the remains are Indigenous: One archaeological firm said the bones could have been brought to the site by a previous owner as part of a sand fill deposit.

Comments

[SQRLSY]

Shoot, shovel, and shut up, for endangered species... Sad to say; Thanks, Governments Almighty!

Bones? ANY kind of bones that MIGHT possibly be human?

Burn or grind or smash them up really badly... Then shovel, and shut up!

[Jerry B.]

I’m waiting for one indigenous group to sue another indigenous group for driving their ancestors off their land a thousand years ago.

[Bruce Hayden]

Why go back 1,000 years? They were still doing it 200 years ago. The thing that finally brought an end to tribes stealing land from each other, on a massive level, was the USG putting the Indians on reservations.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It's almost like they're incentivizing not saying a fucking word what's on your land, eh?