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To: marcos who wrote (2218)	4/16/2002 1:49:58 AM
From: knight	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

FWIW...the following snippet is taken from a speech by Ovide Mercredi (Assembly of First Nations), delivered at McGill University at a conference on the Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Jan 31-Feb 2, 1997: "I was asked to talk about what is next - what's up ahead, and how do we make changes in this country that would be beneficial to the people that I represent, the First Nations. It is difficult for me to just focus on that without making some comments about things like individual rights and collective rights. You know, it's fine for someone to say to me, "There are universal rights for individuals" and to say, "Please be just like me - don't try to be different, be the same as me." It's fine for those individuals to make that statement because the individual rights they speak of are defined by their society, for their people! I remember having this discussion with the former Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. Trudeau, who was trying to persuade me that my people were better off if they accepted individual rights and forgot about their distinctiveness. My response to him was, "Look, you had the chance - 126 years - to show that your society's individual rights would benefit my people and they did not!" This argument of individual rights defined by the colonizer is of no importance to me or the people I represent! It's just another call for denial of rights! Just another platform to say to us, "Forget your land rights. Forget your resource rights. Forget your culture. Forget your language - become English or French."..... Links to the conference: arts.mcgill.ca Links to the Royal Commission: indigenous.bc.ca