- please read earlier comments on the media description of the MKA
as "traditionalists"
- this statement is typical of Ontario, loading blame on the TAA,
"noting the bitter rift between the Teme-Augama-Anishnabai treaty
negotiators and traditionalist Natives lead by the Ma-Komin-Ising
Ansishnawbeg", and never acknowledging the part they have played in
that rift, through moves like setting up meetings outside of
negotiation without informing the negotiators, and asking, at the
eleventh hour, after three years of negotiation with the TAA "who
is it that will make the decision to accept the offer, the TAA or
the TIB?"
- how can it be that "During last week's vote, the traditionalists
mounted a concerted campaign to bring out-of-town members home from
as far away as Toronto to ensure the proposed treaty settlement was
defeated"? How can that be true, given that the Temagami Indian
Band only allowed status band members who are resident in Temagami
or Bear Island (in Lake Temagami) to vote?