Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?

h/t Bob H

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Poor Natives, they’re soooo disrespected!

THE ** designation has zero members on a reserve, but the chief of “nothing” is unfairly underpaid ($137,000)…get it fixed!
Why do the numbers suggest an organized racketeering syndicate, how much money is kicked back to the real Chief of chiefs.
How much is paid to Lawyers?

Yeah, but frig, have you seen the price of traps and ammunition and skinning knives lately?

For some of them it probably only scratches the surface when it comes to total “compensation”.
Anyone very acquainted with resource extraction knows full well what sometimes goes in receiving band approvals in the process of “native consultation”, necessary for gaining governmental approval to proceed on any individual project.

Yes, but that’s Chief Sheppard. Clearly, he’s going to save us from the Reaper threat.

Perhaps I don’t know the legal names but it would appear that two of the biggest cesspools in Manitoba aren’t on the list.
I sure wouldn’t be surprised if they hold out giving financial numbers for as long as possible.
I had a business partner who had a parent that hailed from one of the reserves in question. When he went looking to the federal government for some grant money, he was told to get a letter from the chief of his mother’s band. This shouldn’t have been a problem as he was related to the chief and had met him on several occasions.
The request for a letter of reference was replied to by the chief himself who flat out asked for half the grant money in cash. Up front. That would have been about $20K.
My partner decided against applying for the grant as he had a strong sense of right and wrong and didn’t have the money to pre-pay his kickback anyway.
What a system.

Ug.
Heap big magic.

all the reserves combined would only make a decent sized city, and you’d only need one mayor for that. All the monies paid to these chiefs is a small fortune. Deport them all back to Russia:-)))

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Move along, nothing to see here, as nothing will change. The chiefs will never be held accountable and they will continue to defraud their people and we who pay for this.

Yep, will never be held accountable, just like you and all the other freeloading farmers.

Now you know why they drive the Lincoln Navigator and you drive the Focus!!
Our home and ”Native” land.

Well ain’t that just swell; I’m gonna become a native leader!
You can now call me by my native appellation: “Dances with Big Cats”
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’

They should share the wealth with the rest of us. How comes they get to keep all that money and not share?

With a name like Giesbrecht, I would guess he had a few ancestors in Dusseldorf or Frankfurt am Main, rather than Haida Gwaii.

Are you the useless Sask gov’t worker that just just changed his handle?
You might think that people need union bullshit and Indian legends to live – but in the real world people need food.
Whatever you do, the world would be a better place without you.

My numbers are not correct. Just looking at the BC examples, non-Indian, I get about $1.25 a citizen per mayor (I assume Councillors are both less in dollars and more in number) per person.
I get about $1150 (I assume Councillors are both less in dollars and more in number) per person for the Indians.
Math exercise. What would the Councillors in Langley need to be paid to equal, in $ per taxpayer, to equal what is paid on the reserves. How many Councillors would need to get voted in to break even with the reservations?

Kawakatoose huh?
Then you would know Kawacatoose First Nation is the newer better name for Poorman Indian Reservation. Poorman was settled under Treaty 4 with Ojibwa or Saulteaux Indians who had followed the French fur traders from Quebec and Ontario. Saulteaux are named because of their association with the area around the Sault at the end of Lake Superior. This is the reserve that a judge ruled was entitled to extra land because their own oral history confirmed that an early head count of their number didn’t take into account that some members were on a hunting party.
This also happens to be one of the worst run reserves in Saskatchewan and the chances for improvement in the lives of its members look ‘poor’ indeed.

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