H/T to Cam at Peterborough Politics http://cameronholmstrom.blogspot.com/2008/08/shining-light-on-attawapiskat.html. Something needs to be done fast to end the plight of aboriginal poverty and might as well start here.
http://www.attawapiskat-school.com/Home.html
UPDATE: The blogburst at Progressive Bloggers has been tremendous. Keep up the effort.
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
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I agree something does need to be done: Abolish native rights and privatize reserves and the problem of native poverty three quarters solved. Of course that is never going to happen. Who knew that poverty would be ripe in a community cut off from the rest of humanity and with no economic reason for existing? The notion that poverty could be ended in these communities is ridiculous.
Koby,
This is one of the strangest notion I have ever heard. Ever heard of the "stolen generation" and Fourth World societies. The aboriginals belong to this. A rejection of the predominant society and culture that were forced upon them. They had nothing to say about smallpox, cultural genocide etc. I am sorry, issues of property rights and Enlightenment values are foreign to them.
I am beginning to think that you may be a bit of a troll, even though I admire your passion in legalizing marijuana. You seem to suggest a libertarian notion of politics, one that I am unfortunately moving away from due to stresses on the environment which have caused inequality and continued global oppression.
>>>> They had nothing to say about smallpox,
North American gay populations did not have any say when HIV arrived either. What is your point? The devastation small pox brought extended far beyond a few British troops giving infected blankets to a few tribes.
As for attempts at cultural genocide, such attempts hugely unsuccessful. The authors of such vile nonsense created when they sought to destroy. And little wonder, forced integration is an oxymoron. This “culture of rejection” as you referred to it is maintained by Indian Act and Native rights. “We” are the unwitting authors of “their” culture.
>>>> Small I am sorry, issues of property rights and Enlightenment values are foreign to them.
What paternalistic essentialist tripe. Had the White paper been implemented native poverty would be no where near as bad as it is today. The reserve system breads poverty, economic inefficiencies and social problems.
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