‘Idle No More’: Hunger-striking Attawapiskat chief vows to ‘die’ for her people as aboriginal protes

[soleiltropiques]

'Idle No More': Hunger-striking Attawapiskat chief vows to 'die' for her people as aboriginal protests spread

OTTAWA - Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan is offering to meet this week with a northern Ontario chief who embarked on a hunger strike Tuesday out of frustration with the federal government.

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[soleiltropiques]

I think that this argument (I am not saying that it is your argument, from what I see you are merely summarizing the government's position)

[soleiltropiques]

My apologies, lj died before I could post the rest of my reply

[soleiltropiques]

(I had to split this into three parts. Here is part 2

[soleiltropiques]

(Here is part 3/3

[shamoogity]

Thanks for posting this. I got in a semi-argument with someone on FB about this, but I didn't feel like I had the knowledge to counter his claims that everything the bands are protesting about are problems that only they can solve and that the government can't do anything about anyway. It's so hard to find unbiased info.

[soleiltropiques]

The truth is that the government provides money to various Native groups, but this funding is not as generous as non Native people in Canada like to think