First Nations infrastructure

Housing: Nearly half of the houses on Canadian reserves require major repairs, and overcrowding rates are six times greater on reserve than off. Read the article

Water: Bringing water and sewer systems on reserves up to standard and maintaining them that way for the next 10 years would cost about $10 billion. Read the article

Harper says oil-sands...? can we trust his words?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/12/16/harper-oilsands-misinformation.html

in the news

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/12/15/pol-attawapiskat-121511.html

http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/attawapiskat-chief-threatens-court-action-28

Nurturing, Economics and Indian Affairs - Harold Gatensby

Wendell Berry once wrote.....

“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
― Wendell Berry,