In the first fall edition of Shaping Saskatchewan, provincial affairs reporter Chris Carr sits down with Saskatchewan Treaty Commissioner Kathy Walker to discuss her journey to office and the issues facing treaty rights in the province today.
Watch the above video for more.
do treaties say that indigenous don’t have to get off their lazy rear ends – get jobs – pay income tax AND SUPPORT themselves
The issues facing treaty rights? The natives do not understand them. They are not entitled to free water. They are not entitled to be paid to raise each other’s children. They are entitled to hunt on unused land, not interfere with others use of the land that they ceded.
They conveniently forget that the rights that they enjoy, were not given, they were traded in exchange for things. Those things need to be explained to them.
Even those bands that have not signed treaties, the courts have shown that they are only entitled to the land that they occupy, not all the land they visit.