-- BRANTFORD, ONT. -- "In two years, we haven't got too far at the table, but the education of the country has been worth more than any money they could offer us," Janie Jamieson, one of the two women who started the Douglas Creek Estates protest two years ago, told The Expositor.I'm pretty sure some other famous historical figure has expressed this sentiment somewhere before... if I could only remember the quote.
Anyway the article continues...
"Whether you agree with the legitimacy of the land claim or not or whether you think the tactics activists have used to enforce their beliefs are unacceptable, that awareness is worth something."Alrighty, that's it. I just remembered the quote this discussion evoked... "The purpose of terror... is to terrorise."
I knew it sounded familiar.
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Chief Terrence Nelson of Manitoba's Roseau River First Nation said the AFN should be careful in again playing the "threat card."Terrence Nelson... geez, that name rings a bell somewhere too...
"The AFN cannot simply leverage the frustration and anger of aboriginal people without some real call for action," said Nelson.
"If you are called on the threat card, you better be able to deliver."
"There are only two ways of dealing with the white man."Negotiations, my ass.
"One, either you pick up a gun, or you stand between the white man and his money," Terry Nelson of the Roseau River First Nation told CTV Newsnet's Mike Duffy Live on Tuesday.
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