This is a more detailed article than the others. For the AFN it's a federal presence in AFN and Provincial greed. The article mentions some 55% of AFN claimed Aboriginals live off reserve. Maybe we should study why they left and what happened to them.
Land grants are supposedly judged by use of resources and AFN racial purity. The original argument was the federal government uses resources and Aboriginals benefit in services like healthcare. So, if we follow this argument, Indigenous people have used and benefit from resources from fish to oil. The AFN intervenes in direct benefits for each Aboriginal through AFN racial purity laws, disenfranchisement campaigns and barring non AFN Aboriginals from resource use - even AFN members that don't have an assignment to a particular AFN reserve. AFN also subscribes to Provincial borders that make an Aborinal non Aboriginal by going over Provincial borders.
Indigenous people have always been in Canada and using its resources regardless of European and, now, AFN colonies. The crowns have always granted titles to the colonies. What Indigenous people need is a direct cash federal benefit to each Aboriginal, but AFN and Provincial greed, helped along by other political parties, like the NDP, will always insist on their cut first by providing 'services' and 'programs' and intercepting cash. So, we wait - disenfranchised and barred living in poverty while the latest colonies gorge themselves 'representing' us.
http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/story.html?id=9986954
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