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Originally Posted by Hali87

Not to draw any parallels here but most of the Native people I know mostly just value the concept of self-determination (even if it's "within Canada"), want to be able to learn their own languages more easily, and want their culture and history to be respected and reflected in the public sphere rather than erased from it and torn away from them. It's not always about living in tents and hunting extinct animals.

(plus a bunch of treaty-specific stuff but that's not really the same thing)

Exactly.