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Just reading and thinking

Author

Letter to the Editor

Volume

21

Issue

8

Year

2003

Page 5

I want to talk about the idea of Aboriginals being recognized in the Constitution under Section 35, and I'm sitting here wondering if that was a ploy to pull us out of Aboriginal cultural significance as we look at ourselves and define ourselves.

By being recognized in the Constitution, are we not being pulled into the white man's process of trying to get our answers from always having to go back to his tool.

I guess it got me thinking about that when I was reading about the Samson issue and what's going on in terms of how we're constantly being forced to use the white man's mechanism and systems.

-unidentified caller