How being tied to a culture can be detrimental to a person

I believe that being tied to a culture can be detrimental to a person in many different ways. In colonization road, the roads and railways that Canada built across indigenous territory was like an infection that kept spreading across their land. Since they were so tied to their culture it harmed their way of thinking and their way of living since these roads were being planted across the land they had always called home. In The Oka Legacy, the indigenous land was taken away from the indigenous peoples in order to build a golf course over their sacred burial ground, also causing trauma to their lives and home environments. Colonization Road touches on how the indigenous lives are forever changed because of these roads implanted on their territories by “rich and famous white [people] who get roads named after them”. A lot of the saddening part is that some people lived and played on these roads and never knew it signified something that was against their heritage, something that took away their rights as settlers for finding land and claiming it, giving people of the “founded” land immense trauma and confusion as to why they deserve to be treated like they were not a part of the country let  alone the original founders of it. The Oka Legacy focuses more on the taking land aspect rather than forgetting and not caring about land. The indigenous peoples fought for the golf course to not be expanded because of their sacred burial grounds that lay beneath the targeted building proposal. Not only did this cause a lot of upset and confused feelings from the indigenous, but it made them angry and needed to do something to prove that they were fighting. In turn, they blocked off the bridge leading to the golf course, nobody could come in and nobody could come out. In response to this protective act, the police launched tear gas to kill off the soldiers who were protecting their land. The Oka Legacy is a legacy that will move on for generations and generations because of the heroic and protective acts from the indigenous soldiers who lost their lives over their sacred land. This crisis that happened in 1990 shaped indigenous peoples in Quebec who lived in and around the targeted land, and while they were fleeing to safety they were still targeted just for being who they were and because they were coming from the land that they kept fighting for. I would imagine that being told I couldn’t fight for what I wanted because my opinion doesn’t matter would be pretty traumatic and that further proves the point that being tied to a culture can be very detrimental to a person. If those people hadn’t been tied to their indigenous culture and their indigenous land, they wouldn’t have had the unfortunate events of the crisis in the first place. While something like land may not be a very big deal to most of us Canadians now, it is a very big deal in some people’s lives. I hate to hear about all of the tragedies that happen to our first nations people because they are people just as much as we, the majority, are. They deserve the same respect we give to everyone else and unfortunately just the fact that they are tied to their own culture and heritage is making the majority of our country see them as lesser, giving them less than they deserve and permanently harming their decisions and opinions about themselves.