It seems so hypocritical that when on the world stage Canadians celebrate the native culture we have (during the Vancouver 2010 part of the celebration), but yet you look at the poorest neighbourhoods in virtually every city big or small and a large percentage of the population is native. I don't think Canadians have anything to be proud of when it comes to our current native population in general.

 

I tend to agree with you, however, the natives don't pay income taxes on the reservations, the government does pay for a lot of things you and I pay taxes on. It is their choice to leave or go, there are some very successful natives in both Canada and the US who left the reservations. When everything is done for them by our government, it has a tendency to make people more and more reliant on the handouts. It is a fact of their life since our forefathers first came to this country and moved them to the reservations. It is a little known fact, that if the native indian had not sided with both the British and the French in the early 1800's that Canada might not have been what it is today, but another dozen or more states of the US.
They have a proud heritage the pre-dates our existence, and it is a shame that our school children are not taught about how they forged our country.

Right now, they are the ones with the Casinos in Ontario. A lot depends on their chief or council and how it is run. The stereotype of the drunken indian is a hollywood item. I have found them to be decent people and very friendly. The white man including our ancestors really cheated them out of their land, but it is ironic to note that in many parts of Canada, the land they have now is the most desirable for the outsdoorsman, for fishing and hunting.

I enjoyed the olympics, and especially the playing of our national anthem. I am proud to be a Canadian.

 

thank god they are over coranation street is back on 7.30pm channel 6 yea ha

 

your kidding right? I didn't know that show was even still on.

 

The reserves get millions of dollars and they are still poor.... hmmmm
Time to get a job and start paying taxes........

 

Who's fault is that? The native community in this country gets millions from the federal government every year and yet the reserves look like a third world country. Sorry, no sympathy for their plight here....

 

you definitely won't find any sympathy from me, if you are poor in this province, it is by choice and laziness

 

 

[QUOTE=nvrenuff]your kidding right? I didn't know that show was even still on.[/QUOTE grew up watching it and when i moved over here still watched it even got the wife into it now she never misses it

 

My town is located right beside the Opasquiak Cree Nation indian reserve... (town on south side of river, reserve on north side)

Some of these people are the nicest, friendliest people you have ever met, while others....... well let me put it this way, The most disgusting thing I have ever heard someone say is "Three more kids and we get a mustang"
The government pays them by the child.

I have seen a native woman sitting in the mall right beside a lottery ticket booth, the garbage can beside her overflowing with old ticket stubs and cards that did not win, and she just sits there spending her money from her welfare check.

There is another reserve several hours north of us called Pukatawagan, where everyone, and I mean everyone lives on welfare. Every month when the checks go out, they take the train down to my town and proceed to call a cab. I have talked to a couple of the cabbies... they make three stops every time, which are:
1) The grocery store
2) The liquor store
3) KFC (no joke)

A lady came into the grocery store where I work during the school year, she had a piece of paper from the welfare office giving her $200 in free groceries, because she could not afford to feed her family. So what does she do? She buys $50 in food and $150 in tobacco!!!!!

That's the kind of person who makes me mad.

You don't give money to someone who doesn't know what to do with it.... you give them a job

 

Amen to that!

 

We need some sorta polotician with the nuts to stand up to it all and put and end to this free ride bull****.....how are people supposed to dig themselves out of a rut when you just throw more money at the problem? it has been decades and the native situation is just getting worse....giving them everything they want obviously isent working....

 

hello iam a new member here so i like to add to this conversation i went to vancouver recently and as a white guy who has a indian girlfriend saw just as much white dudes down on the skids just as as many indians i just found out that word is holy it means people closer to god very intersesting. they my people wouldn,t even say hello to me to stuck up i guess just the indians said hello and helped me out i became friends to these people to the guy who came from the pas mb. i as a regina person find the indians there allright and not as bad as people put them out to be at least they where not pretending or shwwing off tsee that they are better then anyone else and the puk indians i found where cool to party with i see they get along with the whites all right like places like this bar called the gateway, they never had to pan hanndall off me, hey these people where here first they deserve special treatment all the power to them and if they need welly thats ok to hell iam not no stinggy taxpaper i have a good job in regina and i have a heart to these people i believe in the bible catholic stuff to help the poor because i thnk i will get many blessing in the end i certianly hope so.if someone needs help help them out no matter if they are white indian or jappanese what the hell that why wellys there its for everyone.if nessarry.iam glad iam no small town person i hate towns there to boring like the pas reginas better 100 percent.. people here are better to at least only in canada mann..

 

wow...have to admit I nearly got a headache trying to figure out what you just typed

 

that story could use a little sorting out