As many know, I just brought a house in Kanesatake.
This little reserve is a shelter for numerous animal species, 6 of the 10 most rare plant species, but also 1925 Natives...
My family landed there in 1909, from the Adriatic ship, from Ireland. Since then, I have roots, but also family and friends, living there or buried in the Native and non-Native cemeteries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis
Now, 20 years later, Canadian Government strikes again, by selling Native territories again to the Norfolk society. Nothing was fixed, no negociations, NOTHING! Now, this morning, the contractor entered the reserve to cut our forest, build CONDOS!
Everybody that knows the area knows there's nothing there... No jobs for anybody (we have barely 20 shops in the village), no school really (for kids, they can't host more then 300 kids, wich ratio is already ridiculous, since they are 10 kids per class, I know, that's my daughter's school... And the high school...), no clinics, hospital or even doctors around (we have to go to Lachute for the hospital, wich is half an hour away, and emergency open from 8AM to midnight...).
Nobody is stupid enough to move there... Unless you want to pass the rest of your days either in trafic jams, or selling cigarettes...
So tell me... WHAT'S THE POINT???
My nation is at war to preserve our heritage (or what's left of it...) and our lands, to keep it as it is...
Yes, my heart is bleeding for my community...
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