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Originally Posted by polak
True.
I really think the only way it will work is to some how dismantle the act without giving the leaders a say. I have no idea how to do that ethically but the system needs to go.
All of it.
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That's exactly why the Indian Act is still in place today. If you cut out Native leadership and unilaterlally determine how it will be scrapped and removed then a lot of reserve residents are going to be quite pissed that they were forced off their reserves unilaterally by the 'White man' regardless of whether or not it's the right move.
The only way the Indian Act will be repealled and improvements made will be under a scenario where Native leaders come up with the optimal solutions on their own and take that to parliament. Therefore there will be political legitimacy behind it so their people can buy into the solution. The problem is asking the very people who take off the top, to propose to the government a system where they stop taking off the top. It simply won't happen. All of the land-claims, and self-government proposals thus far have really just proposed to give chiefs more power or more land to exert their power and influence.