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1. Total brainwashing of Canadians in regards to Indian claims. This is what happens from 80 plus years of Liberal appointed judges. This is another reason each Province will have to go UDI to right these wrongs.

2. I have direct card carrying relatives and this whole damn thing is a giant scam. Amazing how people with no written language or the wheel managed to screw over our country. I know , hand up in anticipation, we have become freaking stupid. Is there anybody who is willing to stand up for both the tribes who had nothing before the Europeans arrived and the current population that is tired of being financially raped by government? My guess would be not one single brain cell.

3. Sad, isn’t it? That any genuine historical scholarship on North American Indians—and the Indian Question—has to be published by the 2019 equivalent of a vanity press and written by an amateur because no “respectable” scholar will write it and no “respectable” publisher will print it.

   1. “Our Home or Native Land” by Mel Smith, Q.C. former Chief Justice of BC.

4. Treaty 6 hunting rights – “Her Majesty further agrees with Her said Indians that they, the said Indians, shall have right to pursue their avocations of hunting and fishing throughout the tract surrendered as hereinbefore described, subject to such regulations as may from time to time be made by Her Government of Her Dominion of Canada, and saving and excepting such tracts as may from time to time be required or taken up for settlement, mining, lumbering or other purposes by Her said Government of the Dominion of Canada, or by any of the subjects thereof duly authorized therefor by the said Government. ”

   Note that such hunting takes a back seat to any other purpose including mining. Note that such hunting rights, little as they may be, can be altered by federal government regulation. Too bad Liberal judges lost the ability to read.

   1. Treaty 8 hunting rights – “And Her Majesty the Queen HEREBY AGREES with the said Indians that they shall have right to pursue their usual vocations of hunting, trapping and fishing throughout the tract surrendered as heretofore described, subject to such regulations as may from time to time be made by the Government of the country, acting under the authority of Her Majesty, and saving and excepting such tracts as may be required or taken up from time to time for settlement, mining, lumbering, trading or other purposes.”

      Essentially the same as Treaty 6. Mining at Fort McMurray has precedence over Indian hunting. There is no room for debate.

      1. Also sounds like they need a licence, just like reg’lar folk.

5. I have been reading the book “Sleeping Island” written by P.G. Downes in 1939… He traveled the Great Barren Lands of the Canadian North…Starting from Pelican Narrows, Reindeer lake chain, Nueltin lake and Churchill….
   His connection with the Cree & Ojibways tribes & Eskimos provide an insight to relationships before the Granny Courts took over the Indian claims….

   He took multiple Canoe trips into the Canadian North ….Educated in Kent & Harvard he loved the true North

6. Might wanna even the playing field over at Amazon. So far, he’s sitting at 1 star based on one review.

7. *
   not a new problem…

   “However, eight children have died while in care in four years.
   Most recently, two-year-old Gage Guimond was killed in July
   when he was plucked from a loving foster family and
   ‘reunited’ with a great-aunt who is now facing manslaughter
   charges.”

8. I like to remind myself of Darwin’s admonition to “keep an notebook for negative instances” which would incline me to read this book.
   However, even from the annotated contents, that 1-star Amazon review seems well-earned;
   e.g.
   Natives didn’t have wheels, so

   “Contact with Europeans was therefore a huge net benefit in material terms.”

   Right. Now many have their own pickups, and therefore wheels !!

   But, if anyone here wants to follow Darwin’s practice:

   1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus
   Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought—an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe. New evidence of both the extent of the population and its agricultural advancement leads to a remarkable conjecture: the Amazon rain forest may be largely a human artifact
   http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/302445/?single_page=true

   1. And they were “one with Nature” and famine, inter-tribal genocide, slavery, and occasional cannibalism were unheard of…..

      I prefer to read a book before giving a review of it.

      1. // they were “one with Nature” and famine, inter-tribal genocide, slavery, and occasional cannibalism were unheard of //
         And what are you giving a review of? Rousseau’s noble savage?
         http://theconversation.com/explainer-the-myth-of-the-noble-savage-55316

         My “review” was of that absurd claim about the “huge benefit” of contact with Europeans.
         The benefit, by and large, was to the Europeans. See “the Collumbain exchange”
         This entertaining talk was given by the writer of two books “1491” & ‘1493″ about the Americas before & after the Arrival of Europeans.
         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhncJH4UFQI&t=3m23s

         1. I have been personally involved in treaty negotiations in BC and have listened to native elders (during resource consultations) recalling verbal history of the arrival of British warships putting an end to inter-tribal genocide, slavery and occasional cannibalism as well as recollections of real famine. They didn’t even need to sign a treaty to discover and accept a better life. You might want to try swallowing something besides PC revisionist “progressive” history.

         2. Your original comment is a strawman. That was the point of my “noble savage” remark.
            I do recommend again the lecture.

9. Going to buy this to read as soon as I have finished, ‘There Is No Difference’, by Peter Best.
   He has a written an argument for the abolition of Indian reserves and our race based laws – so far it is excellent.

10. You all might be interested in reading what Dennis Doerksen (Dennisw Doerksenw) has to say on this issue. He is a Cree Indian and very loyal Canadian. He is also a loyal Cree and has not sorted these allegiances out. He saw through Max Bernier from the start.

11. Here’s a coupla recommendations:

    1. Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry by Frances Widdowson. She is a Mount Royal University prof. Very insightful.

    2. First Nations? Second Thought by Professor Tom Flanagan U/C.

    Books are a worthwhile read and expose many myths that propel the ‘Industry’. The ‘Industry’ hates both….

12. 1. Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry by Frances Widdowson. She is a Mount Royal University prof. Very insightful
    And if you need a further incentive:
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHpkMLHUYAAvPmX.png

13. some good suggestions to buy for my son-in law who could be a card carrying Indian, but prefers to stand on his own 2 feet:-)

14. I tried to google this (playing the Indian card) and came up with nothing?

15. This dude won’t be on the CBC any time soon………….and you can be sure that his name will never be on the list of approved “authors” eligible for any awards.

16. When I touch the Amazon link it doesn’t go to the book.
    When I search for it it doesn’t show up??