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Originally Posted by GGG
Even just fixing land title is a mess. It seems simple just giving title to the bands and ending the approval in the Indian Act but that certainly wouldn’t be universally agreed to by First Nations people. Then there would be the question of how those lands are distributed would the federal government dictate they be given to individuals or would they go to the band themselves. If they go to the bands themselves then how you you ensure it is not misappropriated. Is it even the Canadian Government role to ensure that band assets aren’t misappropriated?
And on and on and on.
I think giving ownership over land and houses to individuals rather than beholden to Nation leadership and government leadership would be a start but it would be a radical change to how Treaty lands are administered and would requires decades of negotiations with hundreds of individual nations and members.
I think the starting point is to define what success looks like.
To me it isn’t necessarily integration and being the same as the rest of Canada.
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Individual ownership of land on a reserve doesn't solve the problem of what is basically apartheid.
Land on a reserve isn't worth much.