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Originally Posted by Franco401
This was a horrific thread idea and I give it two days before it's a full-on hate thread. We couldn't even get one page before somebody nearly invoked bootstraps. C'mon, guys.
Close the thread, mods.
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I don't see why? Quite the contrary, such a conversation is essential if Natives are to move beyond their economic and social problems. Certainly, Ottawa and provincial governments can take a good chunk of the blame for the present situation but it does take two to tango.
This hereditary leadership notion is just a politically palatable way of saying Feudal Lord system and that's exactly how the Chiefs want to keep it to maintain their privileged position. Ottawa can't do anything about the Reserve high birth rates, kids dropping out of school at 16, domestic violence, and drug abuse. All the resources in the world mean nothing unless there is a ground swell support for such initiative...…….a damaged community needs a resolved community to fix it.
Unfortunately Chiefs tend to be indifferent to such fundamental changes as it is far more politically advantageous to just blame Ottawa. Solving one's problems does not start with gazing out the window but rather looking in the mirror.