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We have a big problem with abuse overall in this country with Native affairs and I wish it would get straightened out. Same as white abuse also. There is too much of it. I don't know what would help other than everyone to be treated the same. Everyone get jobs, pay taxes, have some pride in the things they own, help with abuse. It goes for all races but I see one needing more help than the others. |
Its the same all over boys.. Just go to any northern town with a high native/metis population its a repeat story.. High crime rates, heavy abuse of the medical system, social assistance out the roof.. Abuses of every type of system there is.. This whole hunting issue is just that another abuse of a system.. They know they can get away with it because it has been entrenched in their society. Abuse and miss use of the system is more of a tradition than the hunting rights they are fighting for.. I guess people just don't want to see the truth.. And when the truth is spoken they cry foul and call everyone bigots and racist..
They are getting scared cause they know people aren't blind and everyone has had enough.. The jigs up.. |
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Just because you refuse to acknowledge there is an issue, DO NOT tell me to ignore them. And yes I realize there are whites that are very ignorant as well, and I hear about them as well. But the proportion is way out of whack. |
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i can assure you that those who need to see the posts of someone showing his true goal here will. the comments of rams tasting better than ewes and driving hundreds of miles in air conditioning are particularly impressive. i love it when a criminal spouts off and provides evidence against himself. |
as far as the problems of alcohol and drug abuse on reserves, what must be remembered is that natives have a lot of the same problems as everyone else. their government (chiefs and bands) tend to porkbarrel for themselves while basically stealing form its constituents (tribal residents). i have a native friend originally from brockett. when he was younger, he tried hard to convince the others on that reserve to work together with what they had to make things better for all. the example he used was the hutterites. he tried to explain that they all work together for the common good and everyone has everything they need, they have money to buy all of their neccessities, and for the most part everyone is happy. he urged his neighbours to unite and build a better furture for all. he was met with the typical defeatist attitude and was told the usual "its the white mans fault for everything bad". he gave up and he and his wife left the reserve to join society. they both obtained decent paying jobs, bought vehicles, a home and nice furnishings. the whole while he has refused to send money to his family on the reserve. his response has always been "you can do it too. get away from the problem and build yourself a life. the responsibility is yours and yours alone" i admire him for his courage and his inner strength. if there were more like him, there would be fewer problems in the world. for many years....usually in the spring, he and his wife would get into a pretty good argument. she gets homesick and misses her family and talks about moving back. his argument is always the same....."why move back to poverty and squalor. look around at what we have. look at how happy our kids are. why move back to nothing". sadly, she left 3 years ago. he fought tooth and nail to keep his children and thankfully he was successful. i am proud to call that man my friend.
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ok folks
the name calling and stereo typing has completely taken this thread off topic. A lot of good things have been said on both sides, but with everything going south its time to close it.
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