Rename British Columbia

[GlassCity]

I agree with Metro-One's post.

Renaming the Queen Charlotte Islands to the Haida Gwaii made sense; those islands already had a name, so we just got rid of the new name we gave them to the name they had all along. However, the original people of this land had no name for a political territory with a southern border at the 49th parallel, the Rocky Mountains, the 120th meridian and the 60th parallel.

I am actually fully supportive of trying to mitigate the vast cultural damage done by colonialism, but this just seems unnecessary. Yes, the name is colonial, but at the end of the day, this place was colonized. There's no erasing that now. Continuing to work towards peace and friendship with indigenous people is what will really make a difference.

Besides, at a certain point, this sort of name changing can almost be considered insulting. Sure we'll have ceremonies and change names to reflect that this land is the land of those that originally inhabited it, but are we ready to give up government control to them exclusively? Since it's their land after all, and we have almost no treaties within BC? No, so let's take it easy with the symbolic gestures. True reconciliation will come from true partnership.