Indian Giver!

The conversation would have gone something like this!

"O.K., here's what we came up with and............. Running Bear, put the buffalo wings down, you'll eat later!"

"This whole "cheap smokes" thing is getting stale, plus a lot of people are quitting so we have to come up with a new scam!" "Yea, yea, the Casinos are doing O.K. but diversification is the key my friends."

"What we are going to do is take a long look at every treaty we ever signed with the Federal Government. That's any agreement we made and any dispute that is on-going right now!"

"Then, and this is the good part, it doesn't matter if the treaty is fifty, a hundred or two hundred years old, we march in and occupy the land."

"No, really, just walk in with a bunch of the squaws and kids and set up camp! Maybe start a few fires, you know!"












"Well, yea, we need the women and kids there as a buffer in case the situation takes a turn. Know what I mean!"

"Then, once we have a base of operations, we put up roadblocks and shut down any businesses or construction going on at the site! Yea, just like we are on strike only it's the Federal government we are protesting against"

"Now, here come the kicker..... once we have enough publicity we will be in a position to extort, er, I mean demand, a re-negotiation of whatever it is we are protesting on that location."

"I tell you it's foolproof. We can sign our own ticket!!!"

"THE COPS? Piss on the cops man, they don't do squat. I don't know if they have orders from higher-up or they think we have more guns, but they don't do shit!"

"NO, really, at most they will put the run to the white guys so that there's no trouble."
"We, meanwhile, have almost a blank cheque to do what we want."

"Yea, really White Cloud, would I lie to you about this!"
"It's a piece of cake!!!!!!!!!!!!"

This fictional scene has been repeated in one form or another many, many times and so far the Canadian Federal Government has been held hostage for hundreds of millions of YOUR tax dollars.
(That's a number followed by eight zero's!)

Your "bewildered" scribe;
Allan W Janssen