http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2007/03/01/1043/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:21:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2007/03/01/1043/#comment-130731 Michael Sat, 19 May 2007 14:13:22 +0000 http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2007/03/01/1043/#comment-130731 <p>In fact, it is aboriginal treaties that keep Native Canadians in their backward state, waiting for solutions to their problems to come via bureaucracy. The solution is for aboriginal people to walk away from their treaties and away from governance on a collective basis. The decision by the Canadian government at treaty making not to apply the principal of "severalty" left Native people at the mercy of feudal band councils, half of whom are subject to forensic accounting processes at any given moment. What's needed is a new negotiation process that privatizes native assets and puts individual native people on a path of individual self-reliance.</p> In fact, it is aboriginal treaties that keep Native Canadians in their backward state, waiting for solutions to their problems to come via bureaucracy. The solution is for aboriginal people to walk away from their treaties and away from governance on a collective basis. The decision by the Canadian government at treaty making not to apply the principal of “severalty” left Native people at the mercy of feudal band councils, half of whom are subject to forensic accounting processes at any given moment. What’s needed is a new negotiation process that privatizes native assets and puts individual native people on a path of individual self-reliance.

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