Posted by: syncro
Posted by: chupacabra
Even among the FN themselves there are entities with their own agenda willing to sacrifice the environment for either personal gain or short term gains for their community. The decision making process and the incentives are the same for the tribal leaders as they were for the Hudson Bay Company.
While I agree with most of your post, let's recognize where this behaviour you mention comes from. Before colonization, Indigenous people and their cultures were not capitalistic and what you describe is borne from the effects of the colonization and genocide of Indigenous people. I know it's not your intent, but let's not let the examples that do exist tar an entire people or serve as some sort of rationale/excuse to dismiss the concerns they face.
I don't feel like I am tarring a group of people by suggesting the FN leaders are as susceptible as anyone else to the temptations of capitalism. Mic is wondering if FN people that support pipelines have lost their roots, but my point is that their roots are human. This goes back to what I was saying before about reconciliation and letting academics tell us who FN people are. FN people in my experience are as varied as anyone else and so are their concerns. Their roots might be less important in their decision making than providing for their family and maybe a pipeline helps them do that. Or they might be 3rd generation loggers.
At the end of the day if there are sides to the battle to save the big trees, or the environment as a whole, it is not FN vs Settlers, it is regular people vs corporate greed.