Originally Posted by BlackCrayon

I'm not suggesting they give up the land. Individuals don't own land in a reserve. Its owned by the band as a whole. There are no opportunities on reserves. The smart ones get out and go to university for virtually free but the rest struggle and smuggle and live lives with short expectation. i don't believe certain groups of people should be treated differently because of what happened so long ago. we're all here now with the same goals. the world in which those treaties were made is dead and gone. all the land claims they make these days are pathetic. none of the current land owners had anything to do with it.