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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
As mentioned before, many reserves have tried to capitalize on their land, and there are many examples of requests going to the Federal government and going stagnant as the Federal government actually has no one to approve them, or bounces them around internally for a few years. It really isn't "their land" and that needs to change.
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That's partly on them too because Alberta reserves have been historically slow in getting their act together for land claims.
Dr. Neil McDonald has some excellent resource material pertaining to land claim issues.
BC has some excellent Aboriginal role model reserves who settled their claims, got some full autonomy over their land and are prospering. They do take a long time to settle, since they are largely based on things like artifacts, oral history or Church records, but the process does work.
While reserve structures do have issues as described above, settling their claim would nullify most of those concerns.