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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
These reservations and the Indian Act are literally a suicide pact.
I think if the Native Chiefs and the Natives and the Federal Government were all honest with themselves they would look at the fact that a lot of these reservations are located where there will never be economic opportunities and they will never be sustainable and start finding a way to give incentives for Natives to either move to other reservations or leave the reservation system as a whole.
It might cost some extra money over the short term to do it, but in the long term it would probably be a solid investment.
I get the whole ancestral lands thing and the link to the area, but every human being has to choose between beliefs and survival.
That time is rapidly coming.
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The economic argument is already luring aboriginals away from reserves. The statistical evidence: http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion...266/story.html
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