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Originally Posted by Azure
I agree completely.
Is there enough political capital available to disband or change the Indian Act to give more power to the individuals and less to the band leaders? I'm not sure there is, and I do know that much of the messaging will be controlled by the band leaders.
Individual Canadians are not knowledgeable enough to understand what is really go on, and I think the media would basically kill any effort made to change something.
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I think they key of whatever solution is proposed is that it needs to be from First Nations people. It can’t be seen as being dictated be the government.