Saturday, August 13, 2011

Native American Rights in Canada Much Different in the US?

So riddle me this. Why is it that Native American's do not have the same rights as everyone else living in Canada? Years ago there was a war, started by British and they conquered the Natives. According to a Wikipedia entry just to support my point there has been no country that has not at one point been ruled over by another government, and yet have you ever heard of another country run by a different government being given special rights? I along with all others now were not there when this land was taken. I made no choices to take their land. Yet someone the same age as myself does not have to pay the taxes that I do, they are able to hunt and fish whatever and whenever they want. Their school, can you believe it their schooling is paid for, and buses provided to bring them to the same school. They are not forced to live on reserves they chose to stay there. The reserves are in terrible condition and yet the government gives the reserve millions of dollars that just seems to go to the natives who spend it on new vehicles and more smokes and beer. I have never met ONE native american who works doing a "real" job that helps this community. Not a single native I went to school with graduated from high school. You always hear about the cheifs fighting for more native rights, we deserve more health care, more land, etc... they have the ability to use the exact same health care as everyone else. I dont know if these same "privileges" are around for all Canadian natives but where I live they certainly are and I know in places like the US they are none existent which is what it should be like in Canada. We live in the year 2010 and in this time Canada is made up of many cultures who all have the same rights as the next person. I dont descend from the British people, I just come from one of the many other backgrounds Canada is made up of. I was born in Canada and that makes me Canadian. I deserve the same rights as my native friends do. I do not blame or hate all natives because of this hell, if it were me getting the extra benefits I wouldnt want to let them go either, I blame the people who started giving the special benefits that go against the Canadian idea of all cultures coming together and being equal. I just don't understand why all these cheifs are coming forward thinking they even deserve more extras than what they have because of things that happened years before anyone now was even born. I've seen many times things that would be illegal for just anyone but because it was a native american that commited the act they were let off. Explain how this is fair to the rest of Canadians. I've had many native friends do stupid, illegal things and tell me straight out that they dont care because their cheif will bail them out with the millions of tax payers money that they just keep around for these kind of problems instead of using it to fix their reserves and help their community better themselves. They have their own police, and enforce their own laws so how is it that they can be considered Canadian citizens? They live on their own lands, enforce their own rights, and police themselves, this sounds like reserves are alot like consulates in a foreign country to me. This is not meant to be a racists comment against Native people, just a comment on the difference in rights and the fairness to other Canadians. To those that same well your grandparents we'rent killed by the people who took this land, well all I can say to that is my grandparents were killed by Germans, but hell I wouldnt expect any special treatment if I moved to Germany, this is a new generation and should be treated as such. In the ideals of Canadians all cultures should be equal and as it is now they are not even in the hub of all that is a "collage" of cultures.

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