[CaptainCrunch]

God help the natives if they block the trains and roads on a July long weekend, because the public backlash would be huge!

I understand thier grievances to some extent, but until they take some steps towards using the money for self determination, these reserves are going to continue to languish.

To me the conditional arguement is that the reservations and to some extent special status' time has kind of gone. Make one big pot of money for the land claims send out cheques as one time settlements, and shut down the reservations after compensation for the land values, again split evenly by the government.

You can live with the rest of Canada and not lose your cultural identity. If it wasn't possible we'd have special reserves for the chinese, the russians and other unique cultures.