U.S., Canadian & Australian Exploitation of Natives

I. The U.S., Canadian and Australian governments have all had a history of exploiting their native peoples.

II. The United States has made recent gains in protecting native rights.

Executive Order 13007 and the land claims of Quechan Indians.

B. Hawaiian sovereignty movement and State office of land claims.

III. Australia has made significant gains in honoring aboriginal rights.

IV. Canada has made significant gains in honoring aboriginal rights.

Rights of self-governance granted to natives.

V. New Zealand has pursued an equal partnership with its native people, moving farther along the path towards pure equality than Canada, the U.S. or Australia.

Most Americans are familiar with the sorry history of the ways in which the United States government and settlers of European ancestry have over the centuries continually violated the legal and moral rights of the native peoples of the country. But the history of the United States is not unique in this respect - although this is hardly a fact in which Americans can take comfort. If one looks at the United States, Australia, and Canada, one discovers that each of these countries has in fundamental ways violated the rights of native peoples, with the most of the worst violations occurring in the earliest years of settlement, when indigenous groups were still in possession of large amounts of territory. During the 20th

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