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by anonymousalta 796 days ago
This is a complicated issue that I don't see being solved in my lifetime. The higher-than-average crime of this population is genuine and not solely attributed to false racial persecution. Surely some of it is, but it would not account for the entire skew. All it takes to see this is to take a ride on the Edmonton transit system or spend a week in Maskwacis. Obviously the crime is a result of poverty, generational trauma, historic mistreatment and cultural genocide, and IMO the failure of the reserve system. How do you fix it, I don't know... but acknowledging treaty land at every public event and re-naming streets in Cree is probably less useful than fixing the third-world conditions of reserves.