I think it’s time we stop confusing settlement with sovereignty.

I think it’s time we stop confusing settlement with sovereignty.
The Dominion Lands Act was not an act of benevolence—it was an act of expansion. A commercial scheme disguised as opportunity, using free land to incentivize foreign allegiance. The Crown did not create Alberta—it divided and named territory for easier control, parceling sacred land into administrative zones to manage human capital and natural resources. This was not governance—it was annexation.
PROFITEERING
Let’s be clear: Alberta did not emerge from the will of the people. It was manufactured by the Crown for commerce, rail access, and jurisdictional control. September 1, 1905 marks not the birth of a province, but the deepening of an illusion—that we belong to a country rather than to the land itself.
I do not operate under that illusion.
I am not the product of a Dominion Act. I am not under contract with Canada Inc. I am not a beneficiary of Crown concessions. I am a living woman or man , born of this land, standing in my own authority, remembering what was forgotten before 1905: that governance begins within.
Alberta exists because people exist here. But the fiction of its provincial status—its borders, legislation, and bureaucratic identity—does not define the people. It confines them.
And now we remember. We remember that jurisdiction is claimed by the living, not by the corporate. That settlement does not mean surrender. And that no man or woman requires permission to live free upon the land their Creator made.