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The use of “ancestral land” gives the misleading impression that the claimants are Hawaiian natives, but in fact they are descendents of a Portuguese immigrant
by scythe 7y ago
The use of “ancestral land” gives the misleading impression that the claimants are Hawaiian natives, but in fact they are descendents of a Portuguese immigrant who bought the land in the 1880s. The analogy to colonialism — the taking of indigenous property by invaders - is farcical if not outright appropriation.
- sametmax 7y agoYou can say that about any land, in any time in history. Humans kept moving and killing each others for 1000 of years. There is not a single place that haven't been taken from somebody else at some point in the last 10k y. Not to mention immigration, assimilation, raping and slavery that ensure the bloodline of pretty much evrybody was mixed up at some point.