Quote:
Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
It's not that it is about money, so much as people who live in chronic poverty cannot refuse money because of principles. Like ted Debeassi said, everyone has a price. Unfortunately for First Nations in Northern Canada that price is tough (impossible) to refuse.
Before 1930 and the collapse of the global fur market Northern Indigenous Peoples didn't need to balance their cultural, societal priorities against chronic economic needs.
Indigenous peoples in general don't want to give up and inch, and truly want to limit development and the risks that it poses. But in the end, a hungry belly is a hungry belly, and money can afford your children a better life.
It is easy for us to scoff and say what the greater good is, but it's not cutting through your yard and the homeland of your ancestors. It may seem like a baron hinter land to you, but it is all about perspective.
|
I get your point, the greater good could more easily be achieved if the people throwing money at the problem had better aim.
I am fourth or fifth generation Canadian and the place I call home now has a power line and a highway running through it so I don’t have much sympathy for ancestral heritage confabulations.