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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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I think you are absolutely correct. But how to go about it is the question.
I think one option might be a land swap. Give them some land close to the larger centres so they can be included in mainstream Canada and have economic and social assimilation, but still some space so they can avoid outright cultural assimilation.