On 30 Dec 2001 at 0:19, mattd wrote:
Subject: dene suline Kanada The Dene Suline of Cold Lake: Reasserting aboriginal title and opposing the NATO war machine On December 12, 2001, the Dene Suline people of Cold Lake, "Alberta, kanada", are supposed to vote on an offer from the government to give money and land in exchange for Dene territory on which the Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range is located. Primrose Lake is a favored NATO playground, where they have tested out numerous missiles, bombs, weapons and aircraft that
Primrose Lake is a suspected entry point for the Project Earth Enema. The land is pretty much swamp but it is too hilly and cold to be called that. A little further north and the swamps are called Muskeg which are basically peat bogs. Further south, from Lac La Biche and south, the land is black earth parkland and suitable for normal agricultural use. The French Voyageur who were travelling for the Hudson's Bay Company or the Northwest Company pretty much polluted the gene pool in the Lac La Biche area in the 1700s. The aboriginal people around Primrose Lake were probably spared some of this gene pool pollution as their land was considered so poor the Voyageurs didn't bother with direct contact. While there are some cases of "The White Man" deliberating spreading disease in Canada (Kanada is not the correct spelling unless you speak like em Kree in Lac La Biche) there are no examples from the Primrose Lake region. In general disease was transmitted by incompetence or accident in most areas. Remember, it was pretty much the late 1800s before the concept of gems was accepted as the means of disease transmission. Primrose Lake is off the beaten track which is why it was chosen for a weapons range. As far as weapons testing it is nothing special except some cruise missiles with dummy warheads were tested years ago. The oil companies don't discriminate. For every aboriginal person they have screwed they have screwed 10 white people. While many people like to believe natural gas is a clean fuel that only applies to its use and not its production.
peacefully on the land that is now the Primrose Lake Air Weapons Range. Through hunting, fishing, trapping, and food gathering, the Dene Suline have sustained themselves as a people in the face of genocide from the kanadian government and NATO. The Dene people live from northern kanada, in "Alberta, Saskatchwan, Manitoba, and Northwest Territories," down to Black Mesa in "Arizona." The U$ and kanadian governments and corporations have
This is somehow different then the treatment received by aboriginal people anywhere else in North American, South America, Australia and for that matter anywhere else you care to mention. Look at history, it is always one people conquering another, and guess what - white folks do the same to white folks, black folks do the same to black folks and name-your-colour does it to the same-color (and probably every other color). Its called history and it happened back then and it happens now. Just check out any current regional conflict. Why should I feel guilt over what previous generations have done? Insects do it, birds do it, mammals do it and people do it. Even dolphins, the breeding heart liberals favourite, kill their competitors. Cro-Magnon man displaced Neanderthal man, where do we draw the line? My Romanian relatives had their land taken from them by Ukranian imperialists, within the last 100 years, why can't I make a claim? The Canadian government abuses all of their citizens, why should aboriginal people of today get special treatment? The Canadian government doesn't appear to be any worse than the US or Australian governments, or for that matter any other government. I never thought this list was a home for the bleeding heart liberal tree hugger crowd.