An Open Letter to the Leadership of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, and to Alberta’s Chiefs
I’m asking this openly because after 150 years of living under the so-called trust of the Crown and the federal government, nobody ever seems willing to answer it straight.
To the “leaders” of Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation,
I’m asking this openly because after 150 years of living under the so-called trust of the Crown and the federal government, nobody ever seems willing to answer it straight.
What, exactly, about the current system is good enough for you?
Is it the fact that Indigenous kids make up roughly 54% of children in foster care?
Is it the suicide and addiction rates, which are many times higher than the rest of the population, eight times higher in some places?
Is it that more money than ever is being spent “on Indigenous issues,” yet our communities are still broken, overcrowded, addicted, and dependent, with little to show for it in real infrastructure, real ownership, or real opportunity?
For 150 years, chiefs from coast to coast have been bought off, managed, or absorbed into the system, and our people are the ones paying the price. The system doesn’t reward results. It rewards compliance. It rewards managing poverty, not ending it.
So tell me plainly:
What is working?
What benefit are you enjoying today that couldn’t be enjoyed, and exceeded, on land actually owned by our people, deeded to us, not held by the federal government and “managed” by chiefs who answer to Ottawa before they answer to their own people?
Tell me, Chief Sunshine, what treaty right are you enjoying that couldn’t be exercised on land that can be developed, leveraged, passed on, and defended like everyone else’s in this country?
And while you’re at it, explain this part too:
What about the other Nations in Alberta?
What about our people as a whole?
Shouldn’t something this fundamental be discussed openly as a people?
I am a Treaty Indian in Alberta. Nobody asked my opinion. Nobody asked the opinion of countless others like me. Yet decisions are announced, statements are issued, and positions are blasted all over social media in some pathetic attempt at relevance, as if a Facebook post counts as consent.
So again, I ask:
What change are you actually against?
Are you against our people owning land outright?
Against breaking permanent federal control?
Against ending a system that has produced dependency, addiction, and despair for generations?
If the current system is so good, then defend it honestly.
Not with slogans.
Not with lectures.
Not by calling anyone who questions it a sellout or a traitor.
Defend it with results.
Explain why, after 150 years, we should believe that more of the same will somehow fix what it created.
Our people deserve an answer.
Darren Grimes
Treaty Indian, Alberta
Ask them also the following: Indigenous people are a protected group under the Genocide Convention.
The First Nations Health Authority prioritised indigenous people living on reserves and in isolated communities to receive the covid 'vaccine' months before non-indigenous people were. Coincidentally, Alberta Health reported later, that the life-expectancy dropped 8 years immediately after the roll-out.
Protection under the Genocide Convention means that countries have the duty to PREVENT genocide by actively taken measures. However, when physician Charles Hoffe blew the whistle on the harm he saw in the indigenous population following the administration of the Moderna jab, and wrote an open letter to Dr. Bonnie Henry, the Provincial Health Officer of British Columbia, he was ridiculed, ignored and persecuted.
Why are authorities, both indigenous and non-indigenous chiefs and officials, silent? Their silence is a crime in itself.
https://locallibertyletter.substack.com/p/unmarked-graves-the-graves-have-not
This is a good clear message. I am “white,” and live in USA, and used to travel across two provinces to visit my mother-in-law twice a year. As we drove, I’d buy the newspapers in the gas stations. One recurring issue was the disappearance of indigenous women and death of indigenous youth. It was clear there was a great deal wrong. Land ownership would allow individuals to gain strength from the land.
I’ve also come to realize that the indigenous people were sitting ducks for the “quackcine” propaganda because of the taught history that smallpox wiped out their ancestors. I tried to warn a council woman on a reservation next to me.