The main argument that is offered by ignorant or uneducated people when debating equalizing indigenous people and nonindigenous peoples in Canada is well it happens to everyone. Basically, scores of other cultures and peoples have gone through genocides and persecutions so why should the indigenous peoples get special treatment if everyone’s past has injustices against them? Looking back at history, it is clear that the indigenous people welcomed nonindigenous settlers to share the land but the indigenous peoples did not recognize the avarice of the settlers and were forced under duress to sign treaties to gain any concessions from the settler’s hostile takeover. As time went on the settlers and the indigenous peoples signed treaties and the
