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Letters: If I had a voice - The Turtle Island News


Letters: If I had a voice
January 13, 2021
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In my opinion. If I had a voice, I would ask Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett what is the difference between a vote for “Absolute Surrender” and a vote for “Fee Simple”? (Indian Act Sec. 39) To me there is none. I think it was a ploy to get clear title to all our land. Is that entrapment? Then I would ask how can Indigenous Affairs Band Council Chief sign away our land under “fee Simple” (Burtch Land). There was a vote. “Fee Simple was voted down. So what legal authority did Indigenous Affairs Band Council have to sign away our land? Then I would ask, how can the Province give away land they do not own? If they owned the land they would not have to ask to have… ....

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After evacuating twice over tainted water, Neskantaga residents plan their return home


Posted: Dec 17, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020
A sign pleading for help in Neskantaga First Nation.(Olivia Stefanovich/CBC)
Members of a First Nation that has been under a boil-water advisory for longer than any other in Canada are hoping to return home before Christmas to clean running water for the first time in 25 years.
Neskantaga, accessible only by air and an ice road in winter, sits about 450 km north of Thunder Bay, Ont. where nearly 300 of its members have been living in a hotel since an oily sheen in the reserve s reservoir on Oct. 19 triggered their evacuation.
Now, final tests are taking place to determine whether Neskantaga s water is safe enough for the community to use, weeks after members originally were scheduled to fly back and two years after the reserve s water treatment plant was supposed to start producing clean drinking water. ....

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