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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Most Res's are like tiny municipalities with incredibly complicated issues, unlike other municipalities though, they hire from within their tiny populations and generally only hire from a few politically dominant families within the band so you end up with someone who would struggle to get a volunteer gig at big brother running the social services department.
A couple of years ago I got a native kid referred to my foster home who's aunt was his social worker, it was utterly inappropriate, in the regular system if there is any connection to a kids family they would transfer the file to another office, but within the res' government there is a casual acceptance of the band management and workers being unprofessional and unable to really do the jobs they are elected or hired for.
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It's more than just acceptance. Hiring your family for jobs they're unqualified for is expected, and considered perfectly legitimate. When I worked at a newspaper in the NWT I questioned why an otherwise unqualified sibling of the MLA was awarded a high position in the government. I was told to drop the issue, and that it was a 'southern' (aka White) way of looking at things. Whenever there's an election most of the band staff is let go and replaced with family, and half-trained people are replaced with completely untrained people. That's just the way it works.