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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Actually, as I see it WT, the issue is the bolded sentence of yours, and sorry to single you out. This is a common thought by non-native Canadians.
What you are saying (as I read it) is that there are no productive/useful/happy Natives in Canadian society. This is the crux of the matter, and I still struggle with it.
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It's cool. It's something I've been struggling with as I look over these issues, too. Who gets to arbitrate what makes someone productive/useful/happy? My reading of that will be different from yours, will be different from pretty much everyone's. If I judge by my personal meterstick...a lot will be found wanting. But if someone judges me by theirs, I can be found wanting.
The thing I look at (without any solution offering on my part) is, what do THEY want? And if a consensus (or even a majority) could be reached on the desires of the Native community...could it be given to them? And if it could...who is obliged to provide that to them? And if they get it, and realize that it's not what was wanted (or what they thought it would be)...is it then 'our' responsibility to provide what has been decided is needed now?
It's a lot of problems with no easy, pat answers.