[Ghost Tiger]

(03-30-2016 11:56 AM)Anabasis to Desta Wrote:  

Can someone explain to why so many white people claim to be Native American when they're clearly not? Is it like a status symbol in your culture or something?

Here in Canada it gets you out of paying taxes and exempts you from a bunch of laws governing things like hunting, firearms possession, and vehicle licensing regulations. Actually, it gets you a pass on criminal charges and convictions in many circumstances as well.

National Post Wrote:

Caledonia assault: Richard Smoke sentenced less than two years for ‘vicious’ attack on Sam Gualtieri

CAYUGA, Ont. — For beating a non-native builder to within an inch of his life during the fiery native occupation in nearby Caledonia, a young aboriginal man was sentenced to less than two years in jail, plus time served – a punishment that leaves the victim’s family demanding an inquiry into how the courts treat First Nations offenders.

Ontario Superior Court Judge Alan Whitten cited Friday the sad legacy of residential schools and the disproportionately large population of incarcerated aboriginal offenders as reasons why he did not give Richard Smoke a harsher sentence for an attack he described as “senseless and vicious” and “just a notch below culpable homicide.”


The reduced sentence for such a brutal attack – with a stick of lumber on a defenceless man that rendered builder Sam Gualtieri, 56, brain damaged – outraged the Gualtieri family.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada...ia-assault

Christie Blatchford Wrote:

There appears to have been no limit to the duplicity of the Ontario government’s handling of the Caledonia native occupation.
Protesters from the Six Nations reserve, adjacent to the housing development then under construction in the small town south of Hamilton, Ont., first took over the Douglas Creek Estates site in February 2006.

With a blockade in place and the Ontario Provincial Police unwilling to enforce court orders to remove the protesters, all work on the site ceased immediately, leaving the small developers, Don and John Henning and their company Henco Industries Ltd., in ruinous financial straits.

http://o.canada.com/news/ontario-governm...occupation