Dances with Dependency by Helin Calvin;

Author:Helin, Calvin; [Helin, Calvin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

ABORIGINAL ASSET BASE AND LEVERAGE

Land

In general in the past, Aboriginal people have been asset-rich and cash-poor. With reserve lands and only a handful of modern treaties concluded, Aboriginal people currently own—lock, stock and barrel—over 600,000 square kilometres of land (including reserve lands and settled treaty areas). Such a land mass covers an area over eight times the size of Ireland, twice the size of New Zealand or England, and larger by a substantial margin than either France, Germany or Spain. And there are still many, many more settlements to come. Some estimates suggest Aboriginal people will own or control one-third of the entire Canadian land mass—an area equivalent to a third of the total land area of Europe!

While some of the Aboriginal land base may be “moose pasture,” it is moose pasture where more and more oil, gas, diamonds, base metals, valuable forests, and flowing rivers are located.

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