I call this reinventing "Atrocity"

 

One Hundred and Fifty Years of Being Sold Out by Darren Grimes

Watch what finally moves them. For thirty years the water ran foul and no one called an emergency assembly. The children kept getting apprehended and no one filed an injunction...

One hundred and fifty years is enough evidence. Sovereignty was never going to come from the men who throw away the one real chance at renegotiation because the old arrangement keeps them in their chairs, with full pockets.

The cage was built in Ottawa, but the door is held from the inside now, and I am done asking the men in the doorway to move.

Darren Grimes

 

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And Ottawa still decides who is allowed inside. The federal government determines who is a status Indian and who is not, registration, the second-generation cut-off, the decades of sex discrimination that took Bill C-31, then Bill C-3, then Bill S-3 to half-fix and still hasn’t fixed. Think about what that means. The government that built the band council also keeps the list of who counts as one of us. They define the membership and they define the office that membership votes for. We did not draw either line. They did. And then we are told the path to sovereignty runs through the very machinery they designed to deny it. 

 

Atrocity? Lost Children?  Almost Dead Indians?  Indeed!  We've seen this tactic before and we'll keep seeing it... Trace