Hi, Guest
06-17-2006, 12:19 PM
I'm choosing to stay out of this one mainly because I am 1/2 Native and well my family line on my mothers side is rather stong in the Native community, and what not, not to mention I'm part of a large family that is in itself is it's own well known identidy in the who's who of the Saugeen tribe with links to most if not all reservations in North, South and Western Ontario, and Eastern Manatobia. I can say I will never meet all my relitives but I can go on any rez here in Ontario and be reffered to as cousin....
On the poilitical part of this I can agree with the Six Nations people and how this would outrage them to have their land taken away from them, Do I think they did the right thing ? No I don't, But I do agree how they took over the land again, if they didn't there would be a completed subdividion there where the land once was with now occupied homes there then a vacant space as it currently is. I don't agree with the blockades or violance that happened there, but if they didn't do anything there would be nothing left, and an even bigger problem to deal with then it currently is.
I will agree and say Canada is not a fair and equal country, but reality is when it really comes down to the basic rights of natives, they tend to be brushed aside and all the problems left in the dark untill they boil over and things happen. There are more documented abuses I can refference too, and most were towards the Natives then anyone else, and I could mention more with the mention of the head tax for the Chinese, Canada is not as equal as we'd like to think it is, but it as a country is trying to push that aside with it's conservitive views in my opinion like what the states did.
On the poilitical part of this I can agree with the Six Nations people and how this would outrage them to have their land taken away from them, Do I think they did the right thing ? No I don't, But I do agree how they took over the land again, if they didn't there would be a completed subdividion there where the land once was with now occupied homes there then a vacant space as it currently is. I don't agree with the blockades or violance that happened there, but if they didn't do anything there would be nothing left, and an even bigger problem to deal with then it currently is.
I will agree and say Canada is not a fair and equal country, but reality is when it really comes down to the basic rights of natives, they tend to be brushed aside and all the problems left in the dark untill they boil over and things happen. There are more documented abuses I can refference too, and most were towards the Natives then anyone else, and I could mention more with the mention of the head tax for the Chinese, Canada is not as equal as we'd like to think it is, but it as a country is trying to push that aside with it's conservitive views in my opinion like what the states did.
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