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BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Manitoba Grand Chief Derek Nepinak (foreground) speaks at a May 1 press conference. (WINNIPEG FREE PRESS) Photo Store
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Re: Leaders level flood accusations, walk away from media questions (May 2). As a Manitoba taxpayer living (as more than half of us do) in Winnipeg, I am happy to help pay for the compensation for everyone suffering the effect of last year's flooding, and I am generally sympathetic to the ongoing problems faced by First Nations communities.
However, the Manitoba chiefs displayed outrage over the crackdown on fraudsters within their own communities doesn't impress me one bit. It's like someone charged with personal income tax fraud defending themselves with the charge that there's a large pothole in the road in front of their house.
LORRAINE DE JONG
Winnipeg
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Fact: Our native population was granted (read: forced to accept) their present reserve lands precisely because those lands are marginal agriculturally, and because it was well-known that the lowlands were always going to be subject to flooding.
Fact: This was part of the attempted extinction of native culture our society has for so long remained silent about and ignorant of.
Fact: Much of the wealth presently established in Canada is founded on the riches of the lands that were stolen from our native cultures.
Now tell me: Where is the corruption? Where is the deceit? Where is the cynical hypocrisy?
SHANE NESTRUCK
Winnipeg
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition May 3, 2012 A11
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