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educatedindian, the posts here:

http://www.reclamationinfo.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=168

will elucidate on the "why": i.e., uranium mining. how? monkeying with genealogical records.

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Quote from: SimonRaven on July 02, 2008, 05:42:18 PM
educatedindian, the posts here:

http://www.reclamationinfo.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=168

will elucidate on the "why": i.e., uranium mining. how? monkeying with genealogical records.

I don't doubt that Canada's govt can be as devious and less than ethical in its dealings as the US govt.

It just seems that if they choose to negotiate with someone who can be fairly easily debunked as both probably non-NDN, and not of a band that's even recognized,
that it's almost guaranteed anything signed coming out of the negotiations would not stand up in court.

exactly. the bind is obvious though, as you end up playing their game, potentially. in order to have it play out properly, you have to go to their court, which would potentially be biased; however, international court, or some third party court, is another story. that other court would be the only way to preserve the impartiality, IMO. hmm, though technically, i suppose since it's their laws, their court could be applicable... but there's again the issue of impartiality, since they did it, and it's their court... you see where i'm going with this, i imagine.

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they're trying to steal every last little bit of what we do have left, to the point of trying to become us. it's like using our skins as belts and boots all over again, but metaphorically. it's awful, disgusting, and totally dishonest.

i must also add that harper is tied in with big oil, which is his main concern. he worked at imperial oil before becoming the head of the conservative party, then pm; he's also hired tom flanagan, who is infamous about his views on indigenous rights, indigenous land title, etc. (advocates making indigenous people assimilate totally into the corporation of canada), and other people that were involved with the same premier of ontario who said "get those f**king indians out of the park", which resulted in dudley george getting murdered. sufficed to say, these people are not nice people.

brazeau strikes me as either "doesn't know what he's doing", and being used by these people, or "knows exactly, and thinks he'll profit from the association", or just doesn't care. during the residential school apology, he called himself "algonquin canadian", which is just totally ignorant of his history and culture, to say such a thing.

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it's also very much a top-down thing, typical of colonialist attitudes and policies, a foreign gov't deciding who are members of the nation.

http://wiki.kisikew.org/wiki/Tom_Flanagan_Top_Advisor_to_Tory_PM-Elect

Something I wrote a long time ago, about Flanagan; he's bad news, this guy. The article was written 2 years ago, but I had to import it into my new wiki, that's why the edit date for the wiki article is so new.