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Offline eyeball

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Re: Canadian-Aboriginal Culture
« Reply #135 on: June 05, 2021, 07:40:02 pm »
Great but that doesn't do anything for the issue at hand. Do you think FN should wait another 100 years or however long it takes for us to build one? What part would they have in it?
They should have the most important one's. I've suggested foreign policy, which I believe to be just about the most important function of a government, representing us and interacting with other countries and peoples.  That would come after the first issue at hand though which would be founding a new country and government and more importantly a new basis for them. 1st Nations should be given preeminence in shaping that basis for the same reason they have preeminence in fisheries - they were simply here first. I wouldn't doubt if it does take a hundred years too - in fact I have serious expectations that our sustainability issues with the planet will more likely overwhelm human civilizations and kick us into a centuries long interregnum and a New Dark Age.  That said finding new ways of organizing and governing ourselves might be the only way to avoid a global collapse.

In any case and as to your question I think it would be more appropriate to ask what part we have in it.  I think in accordance with our status as colonists and the process by which Canada was originally created the foundational basis for our country should be negotiated between First Nation's and our Commonwealth's Monarch.  We'd basically be spectators until such time as these had determined what part 'our' nation would have in it and we were invited to bring our values to the table for consideration and inclusion in a new confederation.  Our concerns will not be ignored, we're facts on the ground and we're not going anywhere.

Of course we can expect the usual suspects to snort that a country preeminently based on 1st Nations values will be as savage as they were in the past and dictatorial and no doubt communist - the fear of communism always gets the rubes doesn't it? But I seriously doubt that because I believe that thru their suffering and experience they have a much greater appreciation for the utility of the magic words (do unto others yadda yadda) than us, and most certainly our religions, and as such I think could be expected to deeply incorporate the importance of these words into the basis for our country and governance moving forward.  We could all benefit from shaping our revolution around indigenous aspirations.

I recall at a public meeting during treaty negotiations when a local chief addressed a common fear being expressed by saying "there's nothing to be gained by anyone if we simply transfer the poverty and powerlessness of my village to your's". That was over 20 years ago and the treaty has been one of the biggest economic drivers in our region ever since.
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