Our own "Indian Acts"...

Hi Friends

This, as a rule, is a reflective time. This is also the time of year when the needy are on our collective conscientiousness the most. In this the end of the first decade, of the new millennium I'm sad to say things have not progressed for many in the many First Nations communities of this country.

Our people are still dying. Our health care, housing and poverty are still hugely out of kilter with the majority of other Canadian citizens. Our leadership is near stymied by the sheer size of the issues facing our Nations. Yet good men and women continue to soldier on in their best efforts to stem the tide against us.
I have blogged endlessly about the heinous treatment of our communities at the hands of the governments in this country. Today I find myself sickened to have to blog about the victimization of our own by our own.

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The bloated salaries and unrepentant attitudes of those elected into office on the reserves in question are, to me, the greatest of fools and out right enemies to us and our shared future.
Their unmitigated gall and out and out greed has given the bigots of all stripes the slings and arrows to attack us at every juncture. Our allies now have egg on their faces over this incident as well, and hence your actions have eroded any in-roads we may have made with the liberal left in this country. To be caught with your hand in the proverbial cookie jar is one thing but to be caught in these recessionary times is unforgivable. We are held to a higher standard, unfair as you may want to feel this is, it is true. They thusly have given us all a bad name over their unabashed greed.


The truth is there are 600 such reserves in this country, yet it only takes the actions of one group to discredit all the others. Many others do as they were elected to do and only take modest salaries or out right honorariums for their services. This isn't what the Canadian society will hear however. The gluttony of the Peguis chief and council will be showcased as if this were the norm and the only mismanagement of government funds, and sadly, to the detriment of all other First Nations communities. Their actions will undoubtedly give Chuck Strahl and Steven Harper the shield they were looking for to deflect attention away from their ghoulish treatment of northern reserves staggering under the weight of 13 youth suicides since Oct. of 2009. Good work Chief Hudson, you're a discredit to your race.

First Nation communities were known for their leadership. The settlers were so impressed with our governance model they adopted it as their own, "of the people, by the people,for the people"
A steering of the collective not a domination of and ruling over...thats the tyrants way.

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To all you Glen Hudson types. Thanks for the black eye and the years of damage you have done to our reputations. Know that you have had a part, in the suicide of all other young people from this date forward. Know also that you and your ilk are responsible for every young woman that goes missing without any one looking or caring, every First Nation citizen sent to jail on the flimsiest of evidence, and every child lost to the child welfare system...Even you must see that what we do in our government, and what we do with our funding, is fodder for the masses. The bigots and the governments are waiting with bated breath to exploit our every misstep, so as to affirm their dominance over us (for "our own good", of course) such is the idea behind the colonization of, and paternalistic policies and legislation like, oh say... the Indian Act...


Regards, Debra