http://www.slaw.ca/2009/12/01/after-free-olympic-tickets-what-next/ A Canadian cooperative weblog on all things legal. Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:58:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.slaw.ca/2009/12/01/after-free-olympic-tickets-what-next/comment-page-1/#comment-708923 julian cheyne Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:39:03 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=14696#comment-708923 So a few chiefs get recognition by a non-government organisation for a couple of weeks. Then what? Exactly. Many native Americans in British Columbia regard this as a sell out with a few top guys benefiting while their inheritance is torn up by developers. Maybe a comparison can be made with the biblical character of Esau selling his birthright for a mess of potage. A few cheap tickets for what? So a few chiefs get recognition by a non-government organisation for a couple of weeks. Then what? Exactly. Many native Americans in British Columbia regard this as a sell out with a few top guys benefiting while their inheritance is torn up by developers. Maybe a comparison can be made with the biblical character of Esau selling his birthright for a mess of potage. A few cheap tickets for what?

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