Year in review: hearing hard truths about First Nations farmers

[TSIPP]

I was born in Canada and it just as much my Canada as anyone else’s.

If the Indians want it Back they had better get back into the Stone Age....

[AlbertaFarmer5]

True.

I will be when I know it's the last check ever written, forever.

Which is why it will never happen.

[blackpowder]

They weren't even allowed to succeed as farmers on their own land.

When land claims are settled and compensation paid out you should be quiet.

True.

I will be when I know it's the last check ever written, forever.

[shtferbrains]

Land back is why the South Africans are moving here?

Never say never.

[sumdumguy]

Land Back protests in US too. Starting at Mount Rushmore and Black Hills. Where did Custer go? Battle of Little Bighorn revival?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

chuck doesn't have any land to give !

No, but his NFU is more than eager to give everyone else's land away. With their support for the land back campaign.

[blackpowder]

Not an expert at all.
But if you look, it is clear the various acts of the past were as fair and sensible as residential schools. (Sarcasm if you couldn't tell)
Leaving the reserve and borrowing money the conventional way the only way to get ahead. You can't leverage what the King owns.
To me it seems First Nations must own the difficulties they control. It can't stop at perpetual acknowledgment of wrongdoing.
Deeding their land was turned down by them I believe.
My housekeeper was raised on a reserve. Her father raised cattle. He quit when hay was divvied up based on not the number of cows you had but whether or not you were in the Chief's family.
Indigenous schools for troubled youth still place kids far from their families.
Will our propensity for intergenerational guilt solve First Nation's propensity for intergenerational self harm?
The hard choice would be a hand up with tough love not a hand out. Instead we all continue down the easy path.
If we were all on a 12 step program. We would acknowledge wrongs, speak truths and apologies. But the work and responsibilities are still all our own.
Chuck remains on the easy path and as such is as much a part of the problem as anyone.
PS. This was not a cut and paste but solely originated from my own limited brain. Others should try it.

[furrowtickler]

Hmmm , there are some very successful First Nation farmers out west of here , individual farms

One earth was a train wreck along with the “farm” at Red Pheasant that is plagued with mismanagement

[jazz]

Natives can get rid of the Indian Act any time, distribute property as private and let citizens use it to further their economic interests.

But instead, the white man farms their land. I think they prefer that.

Thank god we got rid of our own Indian Act, the CWB.

[Sheepwheat]

They weren't even allowed to succeed as farmers on their own land.

When land claims are settled and compensation paid out you should be quiet.

Along with Harpers plan to have the leadership of bands accountable, he also wanted Indians to have the ability of land and property ownership. But the left squealed and cried and screamed and wailed.

A question for you. Tribes with unwritten languages and only oral “history” and legends, can assert they owned a certain tract of land how exactly?