05-15-2007, 06:51 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Probably stuck driving someone somewhere
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Originally Posted by Snakeeye
Werent the treaties signed back in the day done so in exchange for keeping the Queen's peace? If they wont keep it, tear the treaty up, and let any band in violation live life without the special privledges they get via those treaties.
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Fontaine also urged governments to work harder to settle more than 1,100 outstanding land claims, noting that at the current pace of negotiations, it would take 130 years to resolve them.
"The number of First Nations children today who have been removed from families and placed into state care is now three times the number of children that were in residential schools at the height of this terrible experience.
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