Letters to the Editor
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re: sugarman (i know I'm just giving myself a headache here but oh well...)
You said:
"that means MONEY. a money economy. just shoveling it in creates what, in your own child would be called a "trust fund baby". to be fully integrated (and so to earn a modern dollar) means not only education, but loss of native culture. it just happens that way. you can't have both."
the Accord and theories (treaty federalism) I was speaking of escape your limited knowledge. These imply the creation of a whole other order of government (to go with federal and provincial). I find it amusing that you would think that money would destroy the culture of native government, when that certainly has not been the case for the other ethnically different provinces in Canada (has federal transfer payments destroyed Quebecois culture? Hardly, in fact, the opposite has is true..Quebecois culture is strong and vibrant and has resisted the folklorization that one sees with the cajuns in Louisiana)
Instead you throw around these facile, juvenile arguments about that smacks of "noble savage" imagery...
get your head in the 21st century man!