HIGH-GRADE NI-CU-PT-PD-ZN-CR-AU-V-TI DISCOVERIES IN THE "RING OF FIRE"
NI 43-101 Update (September 2012): 11.1 Mt @ 1.68% Ni, 0.87% Cu, 0.89 gpt Pt and 3.09 gpt Pd and 0.18 gpt Au (Proven & Probable Reserves) / 8.9 Mt @ 1.10% Ni, 1.14% Cu, 1.16 gpt Pt and 3.49 gpt Pd and 0.30 gpt Au (Inferred Resource)
Message: We Share the Same Foe
The First Nations people, and the rest of the Canadian public face the same foe....Corrupt governing officials,who are not transparent with our money. Who squander the money we give to them, and then pay themselves handsomely for doing so. They should be held to account. They are the ones who have the gall to create the stories they tell us to justify where the money disappears to, and how the blame is not theirs for it's mismanagement. My First Nation friends, we are being played and pitted against one another. The truths on both sides are held by the people, and not by those who govern us. These individuals have a separate agenda, that does not always look after the good of all. But if you notice it always looks after their's.
I am certain we share the same mistrust of those in power who look after our public domains and finances.
Ontario First Nations vote on proposed treaty settlement
By JOELLE KOVACHPeterborough Examiner
Sat., June 23, 2018
Curve Lake First Nation voted on Saturday on whether to accept $164.3 million from the federal and Ontario governments as part of a larger, $1.1-billion settlement for seven area First Nations — a bad deal, two Curve Lake members said, because it puts the money in the hands of a chief and council who haven’t elaborated on their plans for it.
Voting was to go on at the Curve Lake community centre until 8 p.m. The result wasn’t clear by deadline Saturday.
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Members of the Curve Lake, Hiawatha, Alderville, Mississaugas of Scugog, Chippewas of Georgina Island and Beausoleil First Nations all voted on the proposed settlement.
If approved, the deal would end decades of court litigations and negotiations over the controversial Williams Treaties from 1923, The Toronto Star reported earlier this week.
The First Nations have alleged for years that the Crown unjustly crafted and implemented these agreements without fair compensation for their land, the Star reported, and that the First Nations never surrendered fishing, hunting and other rights in the 20th-century treaties.
But at least two members of Curve Lake First Nation said they had grave concerns about the deal on Saturday.
After casting their ballots, they spoke anonymously, noting that all members signed a confidentiality agreement barring them from discussing details of the prospective settlement with anyone who isn’t a band member.
They cannot even discuss the deal, member-to-member, in public.
An organizer of the vote asked a reporter to leave the voting-place parking lot on Saturday, saying it was a confidential First Nation matter.
“It’s unbelievable they’ve put a gag order on us like that,” said one of the two members who gave an interview later, at home on the reserve. “And the money shouldn’t go to the chief and council.”
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