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 "The Conservatives have completely stonewalled native people."

The current protests – not just Idle No More but also Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike — seem to speak to what you write in your book: “The primary way that Ottawa and Washington deal with native people is to ignore us.”
I get asked as I go around, “What is Theresa Spence doing?” I don’t answer that because she can speak for herself. What I do say is, “Do you really think that she wants to sit in a tepee on an island on a hunger strike?” She is doing this because everything else has been taken away. There aren’t any other alternatives. The Conservatives have completely stonewalled native people, and with the recent omnibus bill it’s very clear they’re going back to a 1950s mentality – when the idea was to abrogate treaties, divide up native land and make it vulnerable for private enterprise. It’s easy enough to do. What you do is, you starve reserves, you ignore them; it’s not by chance that water services on reserves, for example, are as bad as they are, or health care and education. It’s not the fault of native people….

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