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Dear Editor:

I read your editorial and others and agree with what you have said on all fronts. The reason former prime minister Jean Chretien and others cannot see the events as you do is because he is not able too. He's simply is French, white, from a different generation and indifferent to your ideas because he has never lived or walked where you have.

It's really like asking a woman to think like a man or vice versa. There are some common ideas but both come from so different positions and dreams, drives.

I went to a Native school as a white and have lived in Japan and parts of India. I will never be Asian, think Asian or be anything but a sum of all my experiences.

Please give up on expecting an older white person to understand what you are trying to do.

It took vast events on earth to change people's fundamental ways and perspectives on many ideas and it will not be different on this front.

But I can tell you that many people are on the First Nations side and want to see everybody get what's rightfully due.

I personally know people that have oil companies that have made huge profits from the resource and it will continue until a major case is won in court. If I had the ability to sue them I would myself because they are the most ignorant people I know and don't care one bit about others and the planet.

Unfortunately it will have to be done this way to get things to change.

My biggest fear is that your fight will not get the results needed to get some part of it before it is all sucked out from the land and burned up in their $50,000 dollar SUVs and jet planes.

Good luck.

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