Muscowpetung Blockade

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Muscowpetung Blockade

For three days, 20 residents Muscowpetung First Nation have been blockading a grid between Cupar and Edenwold, SK. Predictably;

RCMP are aware of the blockade, which is posing an inconvenience for area residents who use the road, and are monitoring the situation, said RCMP spokesperson Heather Russell.


Just as they did a few weeks ago, when a handful of Indian "protesters" decided to back up traffic on the Hwy 16 bridges at North Battleford. Another land claims dispute? Actually, no. Saskatchewan settled all the outstanding land claims several years ago.

For the past 6 years the band has been under "third party management", an action generally taken when financial irregularities, non reporting, or incompetence occurs in First Nations governance. (About a dozen Saskatchewan First Nations are under third party management at the moment.) The protesters are demanding return of that financial control.
Leader Post;

INAC has given Muscowpetung all the tools it requires to develop systems so that in the long-term the band can manage its own financial affairs, said department spokesperson Trevor Sutter.

"Third-party management is the highest level of intervention. It is a point where the department has lost confidence in the First Nation to provide programs and services that the membership rightly deserves,'' Sutter said, adding 12 Saskatchewan bands are operating under third-party management.

"When it comes to financial capacity and financial assistance we look to the First Nation to show a willingness to not only administer INAC funds, but to also administer non-INAC funds. In order to do this the band is required to provide a consolidated audit of its financial affairs.''

Muscowpetung, which received $2.5 million in federal funding for services and programs, has not provided INAC with a consolidated audit report for its 2004-05 fiscal year.

The band's failure to provide a consolidated audit report demonstrates the band council's unwillingness to co-operate with INAC in this process, Sutter said, adding the band is also required to develop a Financial Management Act and a human resource policy.


(Via John Gormley Live, where according to one caller from the band, many Muscowpetung residents didn't even know the blockade was going to go up.)
Posted by Kate at 01:14 PM | Comments (29) | TrackBack (0)
 
It is time that we all get treated equally no more cash no more land NO MORE!!!!!!!!! We are all equals today or at least we should be. We are not helping these people by giving them everything. When you give a kid a bike most of the time they wreck it make the kid buy the bike with money they had to earn and usually they respect it!!!!! See where I am going with this. If the well is dry then maybe they will begin to take care of themselves and thier ####
 
hunt365 said:
It is time that we all get treated equally no more cash no more land NO MORE!!!!!!!!! We are all equals today or at least we should be. We are not helping these people by giving them everything. When you give a kid a bike most of the time they wreck it make the kid buy the bike with money they had to earn and usually they respect it!!!!! See where I am going with this. If the well is dry then maybe they will begin to take care of themselves and thier s**t
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Here! Here!
It's quite obvious that the molly-coddling they've gotten this long has actually hurt these people. Give 'em 2 generations of full-support education, and cut the cord .......:mad:

It's obvious that the money isn't getting to the common people out there, and you'll recall the furor that the idea of a general tribal audit caused a few years back when some rare intelligent bureaucrat had the gall to suggest it. This smells like typical tribal politics....... the leaders skim the cream while the tribe freezes in the dark, sucking on gasoline fumes for distraction. The system is rotten and has to be changed. To hell with 200 yr old treaties.... things change! Let's start with acountability!
 
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As long as the Canadian government and companies continue to allow themselves to be held hostage by native people this will not stop.

It wasn't that long ago native people around here decided to blockade the highway on the power dam. Not only were they allowed to blockade, but they were given an RCMP ESCORT to the dam. What the hell is wrong with this picture. If me and few buddies wanted to blockade the dam we'd be pepper sprayed and wearing the bracelets before we had the first protest sign up.

I could go on, as I'm sure most of us could. The danger here is SOUNDING racist, without actually being one.
 
iluvmy300 said:
As long as the Canadian government and companies continue to allow themselves to be held hostage by native people this will not stop.

It wasn't that long ago native people around here decided to blockade the highway on the power dam. Not only were they allowed to blockade, but they were given an RCMP ESCORT to the dam. What the hell is wrong with this picture. If me and few buddies wanted to blockade the dam we'd be pepper sprayed and wearing the bracelets before we had the first protest sign up.

I could go on, as I'm sure most of us could. The danger here is SOUNDING racist, without actually being one.
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You are merely making an observation.

The racist component here, is that a group of people are being singled out by race and treated differently than all the other people in the country. The liberal mind is so condesending that it believes it can manage the Indians through hand-outs and consessions while denying the obvious overt racist nature of such programs.
 
I completly agree! They do not pay taxes (at all!), they are allowed a free education at a post secondary school, able to hunt/fish anywhere with anything at anytime, and allowed to claim land/sea to protect there native ways.
I have no problem with letting them practice there native ways or "helping" them with achiving a better life (through education), but they must be able to help themselves!
I have some indian friends who are hard workers who are also embarresed about how there people have handled themselves!
 
How long do you think such a blockade would last if set up on say
I-95 heading into Washington, DC. ????

( Bet there'd be just a short discussion in ONE official language, and
in IMPERIAL terms just how fast they need leave ! )
 
Here is my plan. 15 years. for the next 15 years they get all of the education benefits they have now.....more than enough time to finish or go back to school and get degrees or trades or whatever they want. On top of that, for the next 10 years, starting now as well, they get a 10% per year reduction in the amount of cash benefits they get now.

So start preparing First Nations. After 15 years you get to be an equal contributing memeber of society. Maybe then you can focus on sharing and passing on you heritage (which I think is incredibly interesting) instead of hating everything about who you are today and blockading and yelling racism every time you turn around.

To be respected you have to be respectable.

I've been sayng this for a few years now.....the economies on provinces like Sask cannot afford this system anymore. It's not racist, it's fact.
 
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