Off to see the Wizard: the 2012 AFN-Crown Summit

WarriorPublications.wordpress.com, January 24, 2012

As old as colonialism: chiefs appealing to the colonial master for more money and power

Like bannock, band councils, and blockades, Native delegations to see the “Great White Father” are by now an entrenched part of Native culture. Always presented as something new and dynamic, they follow a predictable pattern: militant sounding chiefs go to the colonial fort, hat in hand, to ask for more money and power from their political masters. If their demands are not met, there will be an Indian uprising…