Comments on: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada is no steward of the land

By: Shadowwolf

Shadowwolf — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:19:07 +0000

I have heard of much of what you speak of LittleBear,in the last few years.I feel that INAC and the government only put in and support tribal leaders that agree with them and if they don’t they cut off funding sometimes to that person who disagrees with them sometimes their whole family and sometimes even whole nations like they did with the Lubicon Crees who of course disagreed with them and their friends at Transcanada their is also arrests and they put the trouble makers in jail like they did with the Mohawk leader Sean Brant or kill them like they did with Dudley George.But when it comes from our own people yes that too hurts.Money is a part of the axis of evil in this world it makes people do horrible things to get it,I look forward to the change that is coming.

By: LittleBear

LittleBear — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:38:13 +0000

I Remembernot that long ago , they moved THE INAC Office FR: HLFX TO: Amherst ,NS. It was a Polictical move ,for the People work’n for INAC, well the mainstream Society noticed that these PPL work’n for the reserves were pretty well off, having mansions &swimming pools in the backyards. The Point is They all helped themselves to most of the money,between them & The Cheifs,by the time it got to the People ,most of the monies were all exhuasted into their pockets, A very well known practice still happening as we speak today, The Only difference is , all the crooks have Top notch Liars as Lawyers. The worst is yet to come for the Treaty people, The first Nations Leaders have lost their Path in helping their poor living in Poverty,they seem to only think of themselves, sad part of it is that,The $ signs are put before the Needy. I can see the Cheifs rolling out the red Carpet for THE INAC Minister ,to walk on as long as their is a Honourium ,a big Fat pay cheque @ the End of the Table @ the end of the day. Treaty Rights are a on the ENDANGERED List. Thanks for the Greedy and selfish Leaders,@ The end We the poor all suffer in the Power of the Almighty $. Peace ~

By: Shadowwolf

Shadowwolf — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:07:37 +0000

If this continues i’m considering spearheading a movement against this government in the coming spring and or summer i will continue my investigations this winter and then make my decisions in the spring on Canada wide protests in which i must lead these protests.So as they only come after me,government RCMP and whomever is against my people and this living planet.

By: Shadowwolf

Shadowwolf — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:36:14 +0000

I have been away but am back now,this gives me confusing emotions anger sadness and downright heart breaking remorse this news breaks my heart right down to the core.Why do they hate us so?to this day they still treat us like second class citizens if that at all.It makes it very difficult to get along with this government and even Canada for that matter personally speaking.What makes them better then us?why do they think they can treat us so horribly?the Canadian government is spear heading change to Irans human rights record yet they are right what of our human rights sometimes they don’t even treat us like humans.Reports like this shows they have absolutely no respect for us.Just as they have no respect for this living planet what the hey they seem to have no respect for all of creation for that matter.Once again this news saddens me greatly,and angers me to the core.I can’t write anymore i’m dumbfounded…

By: Ahni

Ahni — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:08:38 +0000

Forgot to mention, Cathy, my birth name is John Schertow.

By: Ahni

Ahni — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:02:16 +0000

Anne: Well, it looks like I found the audit! Or one of them, at least. This isn’t the one I had in mind, but it still outlines everything pretty well.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/22732901/National-Day-of-Audit

As a general note to readers, this may seem like a lot of money, but if you break it all down you find that very little actually makes it to where it needs to go. The audit I was looking for shows this aswell. I’ll have another look for it.

It’s also good to keep in mind that Canada owes more than a trillion dollars (more) to Indigenous nations here. For Six Nations alone, Canada owes something like $330 Billion.

By: Cathy Ginnish

Cathy Ginnish — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:57:59 +0000

We are acting in our own best interests & asserting sovereignty internally plus IA law national class action lawsuit and treaty recognition/enforcement courtcase is definitely on the horizon bigtime & that’s within our own traditional treaty Indigenous community decision making “as between us” and will move forward.You can disagree or agree on class action but we are decided on action -being proactive in decolonizing our communities through destroying IA discriminatory law to move forward Ahni (what’s you real name ?) Our lives have been compromised since 1879 with the creation of the governments legislated angle -the IA -that’s reality.We understand all the angles>

By: Ahni

Ahni — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:33:28 +0000

Hi Cathy. I don’t really mean we should go in denial. What I mean is that we could just act in our own best interests and live our own lives (in accordance with our own values and traditions) regardless of what the IA says or what the government wants.

It might not be very practical, but this is what sovereignty is about at its core. And it’s the sort of thing we would have to do if the class action happens to go our way and Canada finally agrees to respect the Nation-to-Nation relationship. There’s nothing to stop us from doing it right now.

At the same time, We do need the Class action lawsuit. Absolutely. And the world needs to see the malignant face that Canada has so carefully hidden from the public.

We have to work every angle, so long as we don’t compromise ourselves in the process.

By: Cathy Ginnish

Cathy Ginnish — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:23:03 +0000

Well many of us in the east & under the Indian Act (IA) law regime INAC the longest too plan on an IA class action lawsuit bigtime no matter who likes it or not…IA is law—to pretend it does not exist as in “shunning it” is denial …winning or not we put Canada in the international spotlight of human right atrocities on all aspects not just environmental issues …IA has has to be challenged once & for all time and treaties enforced-our true law and basis of all our rights-only way is to destroy IA our modern day trojan horse >

By: Ahni

Ahni — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:44:37 +0000

Bev: You can find the auditor general’s report at http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_oag_200911_e_33252.html

The stuff on INAC can be found under “Chapter 6—Land Management and Environmental Protection on Reserves” which you can directly download here: http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/docs/parl_oag_200911_06_e.pdf

Anne: I’ll get to looking for that audit in the next couple days.

Dean: you’re right, none of this is new, and the audit doesn’t really mean anything. It’s alot like the Public health report that went out last year—which no one has ever really talked about: http://intercontinentalcry.org/public-health-report-quietly-released-in-canada/

It was an important report, but we didn’t need anyone to tell us that we are sick.

Personally, I think INAC needs to be shunned. This is even more important than leading a Class action suit. I mean, let’s face it, how many court decisions in Canada have ever really ended in our favor—that the govenrment is actually willing to respect? We can’t even get the court to say that we have the right to say no to development. That’s like saying a woman doesn’t have the right to say no to being raped. There is literally no difference.

The Indian act, and its administrative body, INAC, is a crutch that disables us socially, economically, culturally, and politically. We need to throw the crutch away and start working from a position of strength, to make them sit at our table as our equals instead of sitting at their table as their subordinates.