Talk:Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations

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Members of First Nations are officially known as Indians, so I removed the quotation marks from Indian in the last paragraph. I agree that it may not be the most desirable name, but I'm also not persuaded that First Nation, as it has developed, is a good substitute. As I've noted elsewhere, I think in Indian reserve, it's used confusingly &#8211; it may designate a people or it may designate a reserve housing a community of that people (Munsee-Delaware First Nation is an example; it's only one of three reserves in Ontario on which members of the Munsee-Delaware First Nation live). And it seems to me that First Nation is promoted mainly as an attempt to make non-Indians feel good &#8211; we don't act as if they were nations, except insofar as that entitled them once to sign a treaty turning over their property and their lives to our negligent care.

Anyway, what is needed here is not so much acceptable nomenclature as a discussion of the inadequacies (and adequacies) of the Indian Act and the reserve system. In the beginning, for example, the reserves in southern Ontario probably seemed like a good idea &#8211; the Indians would have a home and they could support themselves by hunting in the forest which then covered southern Ontario. The forest disappeared 150 years ago, but we still haven't got round to doing anything about fixing the system. So if anyone qualified to do that would do it I for one would be impressed. John FitzGerald 16:52, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I've always wondered why the federal ministry was known as "Indian Affairs", it's not like they handly our foreign relations with India. I thought we were generally in agreement here in Canada that Christopher Columbus was wrong in assuming that the carribean was the Indies and that the indigenous people of this land were correctly reffered to as Native, Aboriginal or First Nations. How come even Ontario's ministry is known as Native Affairs? Hasn't this ever been made an issue with the federal government? (Canadianpunk77 19:08, 11 October 2007 (UTC))

welfare in villiages in bc
is it right for a band welfare office to tell a mother of two children to go and CHARGE groceries at a villiage store where things are trippled in price,,,, a bc villiage in the north has been telling my sister for months instead of helping my sister who cannot work and this is the only income they have,,, yet this villiage ALL BAND COUNCELLORS,, GO TO MEXICO AND VEGAS AND VANCOUVER ALL THE TIME ON BAND FUNDS  all the councelllors are driving around in new trucks,, a few months after they are elected in to office,, yet this mama has to go with out food every month for her kids,, and then have to borrow money from relatives NEVER HAVING A WAY TO REPAY THIS MONEY,,,  i dont see how this is allright for bands to be able to do this to a mother,,, is there anything anybody can do to help my sister,,,, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.244.212.223 (talk) 21:40, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

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