Canada's treatment of Native Indians.

Donny...I am not sure exactly where the profits from the casinos go nor do I care. You stated that these casinos are creating jobs and don't seem to care about the health of these very employees. Money over health..Good business sense there.

I have no problem whatsoever with 99.9% of the natives living in this country but when that outher .1% starts screaming that they are entitled to everything and anything then I get offended.

Accountable? Most of us have been held to such high standards that many reserves simply do not have the manpower to comply.

The federal government and Indian Affairs went on a nassive campaign to demonize native administrations. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation and the National Post heartily joined in. Accountability and transparecy were the chants loudly heard all over.
This was preparation for and justifying a new legislative regime now being instituted by the Feds that takes us away from our treaty relationship. Those instances where there were corruption occurred under Indian Affairs monitoring. They could not keep track of things then how are they going to oversee the paper work and reports that have multiplied tenfold now.
Our own administration is totally tied up with doing reports for Indian Affairs, they have no time to do proactive planning. Also we are so hamstrung with a plethora of new regulations and reporting requirements that capital projects now cost us more to do. So money does not go as far and we also become less competitive as far as trying to build our economies.
I have no idea how anyone get away with mismanagement other than Indian Affairs cannot oversee what they have created.
By theway I agree those that are corrupt should be tarred and feathered, very ignoble for an Indian.

lily...Yes they do..When their entitlement has no merit whatsoever. When they think they are special because of who they are and not for what they have achieved. When they call me names merely out of disrespect.

Everyone is talking about accountability. Why is it that many bands cannot even be held accountable by their own people. I have read countless news articles about band members being turned away when they ask for band account information. This money is meant for programs for these very people and they cannot even see where the money is going.

Donny..I think some folks are confused about the overlapping land claims. One cannot possibly say that all of Canada belonged to one group of people. These land claims as far as I see it are or were based on land entitlements based upon the population of the bands at the time of the signing of the treaty. The overlapping may occur when two or more specific bands claim the same portion of lands. Of course I could be wrong.