... They are not separate nation, after all, they lost the Indian Wars and were conquered by British Troops. ... the majority of them are on drugs/alcolhol and are just plain lazy as a whole...
Y' know, I'm frustrated by a lot of the demands and claims that indigenous people are making now, but c'mon man, this is pretty damned condescending. Yes, there were some "Indian" wars in Canada, but a lot of the "conquest" was accomplished by just plain lying to people.
As for "... the majority of them are on drugs/alcohol ...", yes, they're coming out of a big problem with that, but they are working their way out. And what's the biggest health problem in our society these days? Drug overdoses, and that's hardly a problem confined to indigenous folk.
"... plain lazy as a whole ..." is just ignorance. I spent a lot of my early working years in the bush working with a mix of indigenous people and others. There were some things the indigenous guys were good at and some things the rest of us were good at, but they weren't lazy. And lazy or not lazy, there was a time in a wilderness survival situation when the indigenous guys saved my life because they knew what to do to survive.
We have a lot of history to overcome with indigenous people, and yes, some things that some of them are demanding, and maybe even being promised by that idiot in Ottawa, are not realistic, but we need to figure out a way to make this country work for everyone, and making condescending generalisations about each other isn't going to accomplish anything.
