• SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca
    9·
    8 months ago

    Just a reminder that first nations children receive less funding per capita for education and healthcare than non-first nations children. Due to the Indian act, first nations people get their services through the federal government, unlike other Canadians who get their services through municipalities and provinces. The feds have been underfunding these services for decades.

    A lot of people seem to be under the mistaken impression that first nations people receive tons of charity or get a ton of perks. They don’t even get equal treatment, much less any advantage.

      • robdrimmie@lemmy.ca
        2·
        8 months ago

        There’s a lot of leads in the article itself. Links to other articles. CBC has an entire Indigenous section linked in the header. Go to APTN. Find out who the tribe closest to you is and go to their website. Look for “Resources” sections.

        Go to your local library’s website and search for “truth and reconciliation”. Read the recommendations. Read books and articles and watch YouTube videos discussing the recommendations. Make sure they are created by First Nations, Métis and Inuit. Go to wikipedia and search for any three of those peoples. If you’re in a densely enough populated area walk into a bookstore and find something on the display of books on the topics.

        Change your information diet so that some of the music you consume, some of the video games you play, some of the podcasts you listen to are created by indigenous communities inside Canada’s borders and around the world. Watch TV shows like Rez Dogs, graphic novels like The Outside Circle.

        If I may project a bit, it seems like it may be that you are overwhelmed about where to start, not ignorant of sources of knowledge. It doesn’t matter where you start. Pick something that catches your interest and follow threads. The only thing that can happen is that you learn something.

    • girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
      1310·
      8 months ago

      It’s a compensation agreement, not a funding agreement.

      Maybe learn the difference before going all colonialist.

          • cygnus@lemmy.ca
            41·
            8 months ago

            Did you get booted off the other instance you were on, or do you have alts everywhere?

            • robdrimmie@lemmy.ca
              1·
              8 months ago

              I understand how this person’s responses are frustrating to you, but educating us is no one else’s responsibility, and people are allowed to assert that you’re wrong. You can choose how to engage with such people, but I mean if you haven’t confirmed that you understand the difference between the two types of agreements (I also don’t know, no shame there) then instead of insisting that it is someone else’s responsibility to educate you, do some legwork on your own.

              Or don’t, maybe they’re just an asshole. But don’t demand people do unpaid labour on your behalf.

    • SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca
      2·
      8 months ago

      I don’t think you meant it this way, but I feel a bit uncomfortable that your comment plays into the “corrupt First Nations” narrative.

      Of course, some First Nations have misspent funds sometimes, but so do Doug Ford and Danielle Smith. Ontario and Alberta are just rich enough to absorb mistake after mistake. Do Ontarians need oversight or can they govern themselves? Meanwhile, any mistake by First nations groups are scrutinized as moral failings, and stereotyped onto the whole racial group.