08:01 I would take that with a grain of salt. Ainu were forced to take up farming by the provincial Japanese government in the Meiji period, after their ancestral lands were taken from them and Ainumosir was officially annexed, incorporated into the Japanese Empire, and renamed "Hokkaido" (Wajin used to call it Ezo-chi, "Land of Ezo"). Every picture of Ainu that exists was shot by either foreigners or Wajin Japanese so how they saw themselves and how they were depicted in those often staged and commissioned photographs is not the same. To what extend Ainu have been cultivating the land before assimilation into Wajin culture is hard to say.
Being recognized as an ethnic minority instead of as indigenous. Black Americans face the same and worse, being called the foreign term African-American despite the fact that the vast majority are actually Aboriginal Americans who actually predated the Native Americans in the so called new world. Our lands were taken fraudulently just like the Ainu and we were killed for being Indian. Yes, the real Indians of America were black people.
Where did you come up with this? Did you read anything about the Clovis culture that would suggest they had darker skin color than the cultures of Native Americans that followed them?
@@WaaDoku No, it has nothing to do with the Clovis people. But let me add that America was filled with more than one type of people, and this includes people you today would call white or black.
The Ainu people are part and parcel of Japan, they were the Japanese of Jomon. What are you plotting, pitting Japanese against Japanese while two dictatorships are oppressing their people on the continent?!! ----------- 北海道のアイヌ民族の独立運動はいつか….
