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Smear of First Nations over chiefs’ salaries overlooks facts
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Dec 15 2010
While I can find no excuse for the high salaries of chiefs recently reported by the news media, I understand certain contexts that likely are unfamiliar to reporters… It is not my chief and council’s salaries that are keeping our young men and women mired in self-doubt and looking to their future with trepidation rather than hope. If, in fact, First Nations were allowed to manage our communities through agreements extracted from Indian Affairs policy and funding mechanisms, you would see hope come back to our community…
Tags: budget, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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