What have been a advantages to Native Canadians owning a land a is mined for diamonds? Opposed to a solid association owning it?
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What have been a advantages to Native Canadians owning a land a is mined for diamonds? Opposed to a solid association owning it?
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:40 pm
The Native Canadians get to keep the money for themselves instead of going to some huge corporation
February 5th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
The land is owned by the Crown of Canada (in essence the Queen/government of Canada, The Mineral Rights belong to the Crown and are leased to the mining company in return for a royalty to the Crown (cash payments from mining proceeds). The only advantage to Natives is that since they tend to live near and around where the diamond mines are located and they are largely “underemployed” then this gives them an opportunity to have employment in a variety of indirect services related to the diamond extraction process.
Some Indian Reserve Lands can have a direct ownership position in their Resources but these are administered by the Crown on their behalf. I do not know if the NWT government has any special provision for royalties to flow back in any direct proportion relating to a partial “ownership” or not, but that would be unusual.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Well the other commentator seems to have hit the nail on the head. The tribal peoples only reap benefits from working at the mine. After 15 years the site will have been stripped and the lake will need to be refilled to cover the gaping scar left over from strip mining.
Biotechnology is the wave of now and tomorrow. The casino, tobacco, fishing, lumber and mining operations are nice but are done at a scale where the ‘keepers of the Earth’ look at them as quick cash. Aboriginal populations generally become addicted to Western culture and lack compunction and continence required to handle the influx of money, ideas and immorality. When the land is stripped, they’re poor and the majority will become welfare slaves subject to government experimentation and sterilization(25-40% of reservation women in the united states). Something safer, like biotech, software, engineering, etc is also SUSTAINABLE. If you’re stupid enough to strip land, be sure it is not located in the vicinity of your residence. Sheesh.
Our casino has been in the making since I was five and it appears that our chief-for-life, Greg Sarris, is overpaying himself and may have been involved with an intentional $100million blunder involving the purchase of a casino sight without sewage or road access. Oddly enough, the schmuck who scored was and still is my grandpa’s competitor for recycling and garbage in Santa Rosa. Thank Jehovah I have a brain and a land developing mum.
Back to the Canadian diamond mines: no the Natives gain virtually nothing from the operation except jobs with machinery and picking out diamonds from worthless rock. I don’t know which site you’re talking about but for mining in general, sometimes the tribe gets a cut of the site revenue. It all depends. If they happen to own the mining company(rare to never) then the net proceeds go to tribal members and running the public services within the reservation.