How can being tied to a culture be detrimental to an individual?

Based on the movie “Colonization Road” I feel like the Indigenous people have been done wrong the European and American societies because of the actual roads that they made. Treaties have been made that puts only one part of the country in advantage and it isn’t the Indigenous people. All and all, the the Indigenous people have the right to feel disrespected and they have the right to say that being of that race is detrimental for someone.

First of all, building the roads was a great idea for the newcomers, but for the people actually living there at the moment, it meant the start of a new era and the destruction of their land and, their own era. The reason they made those roads was to attract a new society and immigrants. It only made it easier that it was free or nearly free to build since very few people actually lived there. The second reason why the European decided to attack that region was because of the actual resources there. The Indigenous people were proud to call that region there’s because of the abundant fish and easy access to water due to near river

This greed by the European people impacted the Indigenous in many ways. One of them was by including new activities such as mining, logging, and farming because it would hurt the growing Indigenous ecosystem and the fishing, which the Anishinaabeg really depend on. This was terrible in the short and long run for the Indigenous because they themselves were using them, which gave the American incentive to keep building other colonization roads

Today, these roads run through what is now called the cottage country. Also, today some of the roads are now used to go hiking and cycling and some were improved into modern highway standards. Some of the roads that were built separate Quebec and Ontario today. The fact that they were built during the American Revolution proved that they wanted to turn the forests into farmland because they believed in it for the long run.

I feel like the being tied to the Indigenous race puts you automatically in a disadvantage because the system was originally designed for them to give up what was there’s to greet the immigrants that we call today’s Canadians. Today’s Indigenous feel like something has been stolen from them and it’s mainly because of the roads.It affected their population’s growth because they couldn’t fish anymore or do any of their rituals or activities. Also, they have been stripped of many important things such as the education, their ecosystem and their health care that have had a major impact on their growth.