Hey. Quebecois here, not indigenous. I'm sorry for your family. I'm aware that the trauma is intergenerational. What do you think should be done at federal or provincial levels to help repair what has been done?
It's more for when things have settled down a bit. Imagine you're leading a group of people who secured a good territory and you're growing more potatoes than you need. You may want jewelry made of gold to show how powerful and prosperous you are, both to your followers and to those outside. And you can give gold to particularily important followers, and to other leaders, in a very public ceremony, to show everyone that those leaders are beneath you.
/r/AskHistorians didn't go anywhere, but we left Reddit. Abandoning most subreddits was easy enough as Reddit overall had seriously decreased in quality, but /r/AskHistorians had always been and remained of far higher quality than the rest, so, this is why I consider it as the most tragic loss by far. Nothing at the moment can replace it.
They also had also had a really small colony (Greenland) as a starting point to send expeditions from, and a rather small homeland (Iceland).
There's a reason the 15th century Basque and Breton fishers didn't colonize the Americas either despite often visiting it. This was a difficult and costly project that necessitated significant investments. Even France failed like half a dozen times, losing most of its colonists to the long cold winter each time, before starting to be successful with the Port-Royal, Tadoussac and Québec colonies.
Hey. Quebecois here, not indigenous. I'm sorry for your family. I'm aware that the trauma is intergenerational. What do you think should be done at federal or provincial levels to help repair what has been done?