Comment 43853

By Chris Angel (registered) | Posted July 22, 2010 at 11:06:06

Interesting ideas Undustrial but essentially it all seems to boil down to Canadians paying leases on cities or towns in disputed areas. This massive infusion of cash will finance Native banks or lending institutions which will help raise the living standard. You also indicate this or any other new cash infusion should have none of those meddling strings attached. I must have missed the transformation of Six Nations from unreliable financially to a rock solid guardian of band interest. All I remember is scandal and jail sentences. So yeah hey why not through a train load of money down that hole maybe some of it will actually stick to the target without being diverted as in the past. Sorry but I don't see any of that happening any time soon. I have yet to meet a Native North American who wants any sort of return to their cultural heritige. Most are / were as well assimilated as any 3rd generation European immigrants. I get the feeling that the current aspiration for Native youth is to become share holders in a lease / land claims settlement with an environmental vote or even veto for resource use etc. The expectation seems to be that this compensation would be adequate to provide a very decent standard of living to every member. OK maybe land claims settlements plus reworking current transfers makes that possible. What is to stop your power structure from pillfering that as they have in the past? Don't kid yourself about the merits of your political structure, yes ours is atrocious but yours is far worse. In fact that is your biggest problem in negotiation with the feds. Look at the flip flops at Six Nations when that started. Who is in control changes too easily and this means real negotiations don't begin until the power structure solidifies.

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