I liked the idea of getting a blogspace on WordPress and immediately joined to avail of this feature on the internet highway. I have other blogsites and I couldn’t regularly post an entry as possible because I am also busy running errands for my senior friends here in Winnipeg’s busiest mall-Portage Place right in the downtown area. I want to personally blog about issues on racial tensions in this city but I didn’t find the right forum for it earlier. Now, I could do that here and I’m proud to invite you to visit often this site. I would also provide my email link next time if you like to start corresponding with me about what I write and become friends on the net. For now, here’s something that is true in Winnipeg: Canadian Indians are also disturbed about how the other races here are treating them and could do only measly measures to prevent them from being discriminated in the streets and in the establishments. Some of them think it’s also their fault but majority of them refuse to believe that after all they’ve done to maintain this land’s great natural resources, now they are being shooed out of the best tracts of land for homes and businesses.
I have accepted the fact that this land belongs to them in general even though they are divided in to different First Nations (i.e. tribes), and should be treated like normal citizens or even better as the natural resources are being exploited now for their extreme monetary value on the world markets but they are getting only meager portions of their sale to needy countries. What could be done to indigenous peoples of this land for their conservation practices of the past must be equivalent to whatever benefits the dominant races (i.e., English and other European descendants) are receiving. Don’t you think so?
Well, if we let nature follow it’s own course here, there’d be no more indians in the future. Correct me if I’m wrong in this prediction but alcohol and drugs and gambling are making them miserable and driving them to extinction faster than the rate they are getting benefits from the government and the general public. There might be more births among them than other ethnic groups but a lot of them die early too. More on this in later blogs.
Have a nice day and thoughts about our aboriginal friends in Canada.
Tags: aboriginal, Canada, Canadian Indians, Manitoba, native Indians, Winnipeg
