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Red Cross Attawapiskat

Two Sides of the Same Bay

Romeo Saganash | Posted 02.02.2012 | Canada Politics
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Romeo Saganash

On the other side of the same bay from Attawapiskat, their Cree cousins are not living in the same squalor. It can happen elsewhere. There are solutions. Working in the original spirit of partnership, supported rather than constrained in self-governance, First Nations can move forward.

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Attawapiskat's Abandonment Crisis

Patricia Pearson | Posted 01.29.2012 | Canada Politics
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Patricia Pearson

What this is about is distance. A distant bureaucracy from a distant culture imposing baffling edicts and regulations on a group of people who were highly self-sufficient hunters and trappers for thousands of years before they wandered into the quicksand of the Indian Act.

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