"I’m not sure exactly the kind of meeting we are going to because some meetings we have been invited to before, we were supposed to just sit there and listen and not really ask any questions. Later on we’d find out it was a meeting where we were consulted."
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Chief Darrell McCallum of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation on preparing for a meeting of Canadian Chiefs and the Prime Minister of Canada.
Yeah, that’s right. The government tells us they consult with Natives on national and provincial issues, but really our Chiefs were basically told to sit there and shut up.
This is my government telling me how worthless my voice, as a Native Canadian, is. I seriously don’t have the words to explain how depressing knowing this is - knowing that the government invites Chiefs to the capitol to be ignored.
(via lostmymojo)
I wonder if the meeting was about the Keystone pipeline or all the cancer or what. I mean… why would the government even bother to meet with anyone about that, it isn’t like they are going to pretend to care…(via adailyriot)
