Idle No More - My two cents
I am a White woman, who grew up in Moose Factory, just south of Attawapiskat. This is my perspective on Idle No More. There are a lot of things, besides the problems with how First Nations are funded , or the problems with the Indian Act that Ezra Levant has pointed out; there is also the fact that whatever privileges Native peoples have, they need to stay on the reserve to receive them or to even be considered Status Indians. They lose their status if they leave. So they feel like prisoners. They hate the reserve, hate being stuck there, but are forced to stay there if they want their treaty rights. At the same time, even if they do decide to leave anyway, White society is an extroverted society. Introverted whites grow up in that, and they learn to deal with it. Native society is much more introverted. So it isn’t just another culture, it's also another personality-type of culture. I stayed for 6 months in Paraguay in 1993. The similarities in culture between Pa...