Stand up for claims

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Dear Editor:

I am just disgusted by the efforts of the Assembly of First Nations in resolving the shameful Indian Residential School issue. Bringing the message to survivors of Indian Residential School across the country, as if people will receive a cheque in the mail next spring.

I guess National Chief Phil Fontaine doesn't want to stand up to a government that is also funding his organization. He doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds him.

Aboriginal people have been waiting for far too long for any kind of redress to the atrocities that occurred to our people in this country and the racism, discrimination and genocide that continues today. It is like the land claims issue. They are keeping the people at the table in bread and butter, but to hell with the rest of us waiting for our land question to be addressed while we pay through the nose to be a part of the process.

It's the same BS our ancestors were fed. When are we going to stand up as Aboriginal people and assert our claim "lock, stock and barrel" as Nisga'a Chief Frank Calder said to parliamentarians in 1968.

More lies from the white man. Why do we even bother?

Marlene Trick

Tsimshian Nation