Governments to blame: chiefs

Photos by Boris Minkevich / Winnipeg Free Press When asked about growing evacuee numbers, Grand Chief Derek Nepinak, left, suggests evacuees affected by previous floods are coming forward now.

[lorne burgerton]

What a joke! I like the final sentence of the article the best though. All they want is to be treated like every other Canadian. OK, does that include the part where you have to pay taxes, have no opportunity "given" to you, that you would actually have to work for, just like every other Canadian? How about when that treaty cheque disappears? Most Canadians don't get that. If these people were treated like every other Canadian, they'd be complaining daily that their being oppressed and treated unfairly by the white man. Oh wait, that's what they do now. This will never change along with the "gimme, gimme" sense of entitlement that most natives believe is "owed" to them. It's completely pathetic that it's still happening.

[JTF]

The reason that our forefathers built walls around their settlements was to keep out thieves and scoundrels.

We still have those thieves and scoundrels but we are no longer protected by walls unfortunately.

[John]

Jonny Two Shirts wrote:

Fugoff eh? You took our land, our ways our women our bison. Took us from our people to put us in schools. Gave us booze and let us starve. Euro-dogs.

You weren't using the land anyway, you can certainly have your ways, women, and bison back, and you gave us tobaco.

[Litter Peg]

In my day and age we didn't put up with this nonsense. The native peoples were plenty happy on the reserves and the white people worked in the cities, towns and on the farms. Nobody complained and there wasn't security and cameras in your face wherever you went. Everything was in one language, that's it. Didn't need no welfare state, everybody pulled his weight, jeez my old La Salle ran great. Nowadays all you see are piles of garbage and dog doo everywhere. Bunch of freaks walk around with piercings everywhere and covereed in tattoos. The girls act, dress and drink like the boys. Life really stinks in today's day and age, and it's not just the dog doo.

[Litter Peg]

Jonny Two Shirts wrote:

Fugoff eh? You took our land, our ways our women our bison. Took us from our people to put us in schools. Gave us booze and let us starve. Euro-dogs.

Get with it Tonto. It's called progress.

[JTF]

Jonny Two Shirts wrote:

Fugoff eh? You took our land, our ways our women our bison. Took us from our people to put us in schools. Gave us booze and let us starve. Euro-dogs.

I didn't do any of that shit.

Matter of fact, all that shit is no excuse for sitting on your collective asses collecting welfare and having a sense of entitlement.