I've never heard of native peoples drying or polluting up their streams, or causing super fund sites with their waste. Nor have I ever heard of them to cause a spieces to become extinct or erode their lands by misuse.

(Just BTW, that is not true in general.) However, my point is that the Icelanders are the natives of Iceland since many centuries (about as long very roughly as the Maori are the natives of New Zealand) and the Faroese are the natives of the Faroes.

Do people have to look different from us to be regarded by us as "natives" and to get the privileges of "natives" that come from a bad conscience accumulated aver the centuries of mistreatment?

In my eyes, the privileges of "natives" have to be granted to the Icelanders and Faroese as well or (Peace's consistent position) everybody should be forbidden to hunt whales.

Wolfgang