Canadians: What do you think of the numbered treaties?

Question

Open to anyone really. I'm doing a lot of research right now on Treaty 6 specifically and just curious what random Canadians think.

Answer 1

I think that the whole ideas of the treaties needs to be revisited.

They are not helping aboriginal people. They give a false sense of proprietorship.

The band owns the land, the band is not democratically elected, they are mostly run by hereditary chiefs and their cronies.

Band elections run more along the lines of corrupt gangsters, at lest the ones in Saskatchewan an Alberta that i am persoanlly familiar with.

Women are treated inexcusably because of these treaties.

If a marriage breaks up, the woman is kicked out of the house, because it belongs to the man through the band council.

This forces many women with children to put up with abuse in order to have a place to stay.

In regular society, a woman can have the abusive man removed from the matrimonial home in orde to protect the children.

I have gret respect for Indian Culture, but most of the natives i have known are disconnected from their culture. If Native Indians owned the property of the treaty lands out right, they could take greater responsibility for it or sell it or whatever they wanted to.

The current system is letting them down, and something needs to be radically changed otherwise drugs, alcohol, poverty and illiteracy and violence will consume these people.

Somehow, they must be brought into mainstream society, not isolated on poverty stricken reserves.

Answer 2

Thank you very much for your apology. I'm actually a professor doing a little bit of research on ebay and was curious if anyone knew about this market. According to what I found using YA, only 38.8% of people knew, which is a lot smaller than I thought. I'm going to look into it more now, so I'll stop bugging you (and everyone else) with my annoying repetitive questions. I just had to get n>100 responses. Sorry!