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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Look at it this way:
They turned down an offer of $130,000+ for every man, woman, and child on the reserve, knowing that turning down the offer meant everyone would get $0.
I'm not saying that every member would just get a cheque, but the reserve would have had a ton of cash, and a lot of development land, build some retail, hotels, etc, and the reserve could have been financially wealthy perpetually. The amount of money was enough so that should have been possible even if the money was managed relatively poorly.
Perhaps the chief and council would have made out like a bandit, however, even if that were the case, the people would have been much more "well off" as well.
$275 million given to a reserve of roughly 2000 people.
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They probably just want to keep pushing until they know the province cannot back away and they get 600 million or something stupid.
Let's be honest, these are the people who build Casinos and whatnot, all they want is money, has nothing to do with "sacred land"