My rhetorical question was: "can someone on this board on this topic, just once explain what they think would be positive solutions for aboriginals in a non patronizing way?" In regards to my question I deliberately stated " in a non patronizing way".
I don't agree with you that a non-aboriginal cannot join a conversation as to positive ways that can help.
In fact it would be illogical to suggest the only solutions will be what aboriginals decide. It will require to way discussion and agreement not unilateral demands.
How do you propose to have a two way discussion
here?
So I wquld argue we do require two way dialogue. Where I gree with you is if our dialogue is not genuinely mutually respectful it won't be effective and may entrench certain aboriginal positions.
Such as ... ?
n fact the whole method of how aboriginal culture negotiations is from listening as much as talking.Aboriginals have never rejected opportunities to negotiate and discuss when they have been done with mutual respect. The whole concept of their healing circles is just that.
Here is an example of what I mean. I like some, question the Indian Act. Do I need to be aboriginal to question it? The Indian Act took 60 to 80 Nations or Tribes and divided them into 633
small federal administrative enclaves called “bands” on some 3,000 reserves. The aboriginal leaders say this redefined this nations was wards of the state through these bands rather than recognize the 60-80 nations as a collective identity through a treaty symbolized through the wampum belt. So to them this is the starting point of what they see is the major problem when dealing with our federal government.
The Supreme Court does already recognize both Traditional and Treaty Territories.
(Ie, with and without treaty)
Well it makes sense. The entire band system is corrupt with millions of dollars lost in the maze of corrupt band administrative systems and no one auditing how the money is spent
How many First Nations Band Councils' websites have you checked for an Audited Financial Statement?
Get back to us on that.
Your disinformed comments here are just defamation/hate speech that originates from white supremacists.And btw ... the Band Council system belongs to Canada. Canada forcibly imposed it on Indigenous communities in the 1920's, at RCMP gunpoint where there was resistance. The RCMP also conducted searches and seized Treaty wampum belts.
And also made 'Indian' Residential Schools mandatory, to kill off as many Indigenous kids as they could, especially those of the Traditional Council leaders ... and sterilize the women too.
and surely as aboriginals tell us even the definition of a "reservation" no longer makes sense.
Never did up here.
We have land Reserves.
They make sense now as they are 'home' communities to many people.
They didn't make sense as apartheid camps, when Indigenous people were forcibly confined there, unable to leave without a 'Pass', seldom granted.
So I ask you and others, what if we did away with this act. What if we had the aboriginals create an actual aboriginal council of leaders elected like MP's are from all over Canada.
Then we take say 10 of their elected representatives they vote on, who sit in our federal Parliament in 10 seats and also are guaranteed a certain no. of seats in the Senate until they do away with that useless appendage.
See, this is where it becomes extremely patronizing, a one-way white-settler agenda proposed by 1 person ... who just falsely accused all Indigenous communities of being "corrupt" ... to be imposed in Indigenous people, without their input.Your ignorance and white superiority complex are astoundingly tone deaf.
I just use that as an example. Its been suggested but none of us talk about it. If we are talking about healing or reconciling we have to seriously look at that Indian Act.
No question.
And the Supreme Court rulings.
The Supreme Court is begging politicians to declare Aboriginal Title where the court's criteria clearly warrant it. Let's get on with it. Stop fighting it expensively again in court every time.
Because that's what politicians will do ... spend a lot of money stalling ... whether in courts or negotiations, they just stall.
Because
government's duty is to minimize the liability of the Crown.So on it goes ... government's continue bleeding money while doing nothing.
No matter how many conversations there are, the government's intent remains the same:
Divest Indigenous Peoples of their land rights.
Because business needs "certainty".