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Indian Act: Permit to control a culture

The system was meant to protect Natives from being cheated, but it quickly changed into a way to ensure aboriginals didn't compete

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When George Munroe came back from the war in 1944, he had shrapnel in his back and a chip on his shoulder.

Having fought overseas for freedom and democracy, he found it grossly unfair that in his own country he couldn't buy a drink, vote in a federal election or sell goods without a permit - all because he was Native.

Indian Act: Permit to control a culture

The system was meant to protect Natives from being cheated, but it quickly changed into a way to ensure aboriginals didn't compete

Page 8

When George Munroe came back from the war in 1944, he had shrapnel in his back and a chip on his shoulder.

Having fought overseas for freedom and democracy, he found it grossly unfair that in his own country he couldn't buy a drink, vote in a federal election or sell goods without a permit - all because he was Native.

Indian Act: Permit to control a culture

The system was meant to protect Natives from being cheated, but it quickly changed into a way to ensure aboriginals didn't compete

Page 8

When George Munroe came back from the war in 1944, he had shrapnel in his back and a chip on his shoulder.

Having fought overseas for freedom and democracy, he found it grossly unfair that in his own country he couldn't buy a drink, vote in a federal election or sell goods without a permit - all because he was Native.

Unity essential for self-rule

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A couple of weeks ago, Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon suggested that a Native parliament may be the next step in securing Native self-government.

The national Native political body would probably not be a parliament in the constitutional sense. An Aboriginal parliament would instead consist of Native officials administering programs for Native people through the same sort of representative democracy that the non-Native provincial and federal systems currently use. That way, Natives at the community level would decide who would represent them.