How Great is Living on a Reserve?

LivingDead wrote:

rosencrentz wrote:Ahousaht reserve- no running water?
Is there any explanation, other than the chiefs took the money, to explain how in 2009 this can be true?
And Canada is in 3rd world countries setting up fresh running water, but not in Canada because?

Only in Canada do you have people claiming poverty while having fun on their quads.



I wonder where all the band money goes. Those quads cost about 7k or more.

From what I'm told, (by a former resident) People up in Cross Lake/Norway house get a new quad and snowmobile every couple of years. I'm told there is a mountain of snowmobiles and pickup trucks at the bottom of the lake near Norway house. I'm told, People leave them out on the ice during spring melt/breakup and get new ones through insurance and from the band office.

grumpy old man wrote:Not sure how you arrive at 33 billion dollars as the monies feeding the reserves LD. INAC has an $8 or 9 billion budget. Base your math on the INAC budget.

But any way you slice it that is one HUGE chunk 'o cash.how that money is spent. Start with the reserves themselves. Spend every available dollar on schools on reserves. Spend whatever is necessary on university educations as well.

An education is paramount. Then perhaps our aboriginal brothers and sisters can take care of themselves.

incognito wrote:Quads are part of the traditional native lifestyle.

Miz point wrote:reservations are shitholes.....get rid of that system as it benefits only a select few and not those individuals that it was designed to serve....