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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
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.
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I say this in jest, but they should sorta be used to that by now, shouldn't they? I mean, it's why they're in this position in the first place.
And while it might cause some bellyaching, after about six months of driving on first-world roads and not travelling back in time 50 years every time you go home, I'm sure the number of people missing reserve life would go down quickly. Most importantly, if people still wanna live together, that's why we have the northeast. It'll be good times.
But this current setup needs to change. Is the next iPod coming from a reserve? What about some new green energy? Something that gets a man to Saturn?
Don't take the land back, but stop treating it like it's something that exists outside the laws of regular society. And stop paying people to live in squalor.