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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Why did they leave their "old" lifestyle? Was it be choice?
I will say that I don't know a tonne about the history of the north, or all the ins and outs of the problems, but if "we" (read the gov't) helped create these problems shouldn't "we" help solve these problems?
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Progress, history, civilization, circumstances all the usual stuff. How long do you continue to download the responsibility for aboriginal well-being onto the general population? What is this collective "we" thing? Did you do something awful personally? I didn't. These communities feel completely helpless now not because of lack of government help but because of over-abundance of it. If the "special" assistance was eliminated 50 years ago, we would have a lot more assimilated, developed and self-confident first nations. I am 100% sure of it.