AN ALASKAN NATIVE WARNS THE NATIVES PEOPLES OF CANADA ABOUT FEDERAL RECOGNITION -
IS THIS THE FUTURE FOR HAWAI'I ?
"There was an aboriginal settlement in Alaska and it was done without consensus. There's not even 500 signatures on that Alaska native claim settlement act - and what it did was strip us of our land and strip us of our customary and traditional rights to fishing and hunting. It actually put us into a state of taxation. This is not protection of your land. I do not want to see the first nation people of Canada walk into the same traps that we walked into in Alaska. There has got to be a different process going on because you have title, and Canada, like the United States, never perfected title to your lands. This is something the first nations people have to understand - that if they do not have a perfected title, they cannot have an aboriginal claim on you."
