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Originally Posted by Burninator
My uncle follows all this stuff where he lives in Saskatchewan and he was telling me about these two tribes that both received a rather large payment from the feds. For the life of me I can't remember what specifically the money was for, but it doesn't really matter. The tribes were in very close proximity to each other, actually separated by a highway at one point. The leaders of one tribe took all the money and distributed it evenly to everyone in the tribe (around hundred thousand each). The leaders of the other tribe kept all the money and spent it basically on infrastructure for the reserve (education etc.). Now before this the tribes were both at around the same level. Well the tribe gave everyone a fair share basically nosed dived and the other tribe was doing great. Most people in the first tribe just wasted their money. While the other tribe kept and is still building up it's educational services. The difference is night and day. He said when you drove on the highway you could tell which tribe was which by the all abandoned cars on the one side.
Unfortunately not all leaders are as just with the money as this one. But it does go to show that with the right attitude it can be turned around.
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We can't rely on our own government to spend our tax dollars wisely, yet we are pointing out what a reserve and it's leaders can do better? I agree with what you are saying as i said that's a huge problem earlier in this thread.
Funny how this thread was started, natives possibly blocking trains......not too long ago our transit drivers were going to go on strike and threatened to block c-trains from running by picketing across the tracks. Interesting that i didn't see a single comment regarding this and i'm sure that a situation like that would have had more of an effect on most of the people here than a blockade on a CP or CN rail track. Why is that?