If you have Netflix and want to know what's wrong with The Indian Act and the hopeless reservation system it spawns, watch this series. I was amazed and shocked that natives participated in this expose of what actually goes on on the average "rez".
It chronicles what I have been saying and writing about for years: corruption, incompetence, cronyism, alcoholism, sniffing, suicide, incest and abject desperation are the cornerstones of life in these dismal and degrading communities. And the natives can thank their own inept and lawless leadership for the entire tragedy. The disclaimer says it's a "fictional" Alberta reservation, but it might just as well be down the road at Stoney-Nakoda and Siksiska or Tsuu t'ina.
As I have said so often, I am eternally grateful to my Mohawk great-grandmother who married off-reserve, thus allowing her offspring to be "Canadian". This stark series should be required viewing for our hapless and naïve prime minister and clueless minister of indigenous and northern affairs. Someone should make them sit in a chair and watch all episodes so they could actually know what is going on under their noses.
Natives themselves need to wake up and force their own chiefs and leaders to be accountable for what they are doing with the billions given them. Better still, get the hell off the rez.
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