As the original Indigenous people of North America that did not immigrate here since colonial exploration time periods, we have seen and witnessed our homelands removed from our use as provided to us from Creator.
This was done through the papal bulls of the Roman Catholic Church during the middle Eastern Crusades and increased in the 14th century where Pope Nicholas declared war on non-Christians that clearly stated, “those who were not-Christian did not have the right to be viewed as human beings.”
Fast forwarding from 1492 after Christopher Columbus got lost and didn’t know if he was back in the West Indies, where he encountered the original people that lived their and called them “Indians”. He was lost and landed in North America where he discovered Indigenous people that did not fit the description of Pope Alexander who decreed in 1493 that, “only Christians had souls and were considered human and that non-Christian nations may no longer own land,” in the face of claims made by other exploring Nations at that time to North America.
This decree also introduced the Doctrine of Discovery and “Terra Nullius” which means empty land according to these preconceptions of the European exploring Christian Nations (Spain, Portugal, France, England and Holland) that clearly affirmed that Christians had the divine right to claim absolute title to and ultimate authority over any newly discovered land.
In the 15th Century Christianity justified the taking of lands when they introduced “Requerimiento” or Injunction for the legal use of discoverers which exploring nations to North America read to the Indigenous People in the presence of an Officer of the King.
Reminder that Indigenous Nations only spoke, knew, and understood the world in their own dialects and not English, French, Spanish, or Dutch.
The injunction was for legal purposes to claim the land and people; and, that if the Nations did not agree that they would be punished and it was legal to do so according to this decree. This is why Manifest Destiny and other proclamations were made to justify assertions of sovereignty over others and lands, in all directions.
In 2025 the original inhabitants of North America and original landowners have experienced genocide through colonial land cessions, establishment of Hudson Bay Company and Rupert's Land, Royal Proclamation of 1763, and the Indian Act and all its current amendments.
The King and Queen were not actually here on May 27, 2025 just to open parliament they were here to also review and approve of the Federal Governments plan (Bill C-5) to go into the British Monarchy's Crown lands, that First Nations retain ownership to because those same lands were never relinquished – they were stolen.
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 is a legal document states the Crown will ensure, “First Nations sovereignty and title in North America, and that only the Crown in a public meeting could acquire lands from First Nations, thus the Crown became the only agency with the right to negotiate land transfers from First Nations and to the colonists.
The King and Queen were invited here by the Canadian Government (British Monarchy) to give their approval once again to inflict whatever means is necessary to further expropriate lands (crown lands) that were agreed to be shared in treaties and other forms of agreements (Wampum Belts).
If history is going to repeat itself in the 20th Century by re-introducing a new Indian Act regime using UNIDRIP, phrases like reconciliation, or any forced political agreements like One Canadian Economy, or Ontario’s Bill C-5, just remember that the world will be witness to who Canada really is and likely hasn’t changed from its oldest version of itself because First Nations will again be Idle No More.
Stacey Nahdee