The _Globe and Mail_ is billed as Canada's national newspaper. It does
have wide national circulation.
One of the standard columns in the Globe is the Middle Kingdom column.
Every Tuesday has been dedicated to articles concerning Aboriginal People
and is called State of the Nations (see below for an axplanation. To get
to Middle Kingdom, from the Globe's home page,
(http://www.theglobeandmail.com/) click on "WebExtra". You'll see a
graphic for "Middle Kingdom." Just click on it.
The following is a bit about the column:
What is The Middle Kingdom?
A daily feature of The Globe and Mail, Canada's National Newspaper, that
is dedicated to explanatory journalism. Its job is not to tell you what
happened or what anyone thinks about what happened. It is, reads our
motto, to examine "how and why things happen."
Tuesday: State of the Nations
This new series will take a cross-country look at native life, featuring
reports by Globe correspondents and offering readers an opportunity to
comment in print and interact with each other on line in the discussion
Native Canadians: What Next?
The April 22 article was:
The writing on the wall
By Rudy Platiel
Native Affairs Reporter
Here's a snippet from the article.
"FOR Canada's native people, the approaching millennium brings the promise
of a brighter tomorrow and the prospect of some very dark times. Already,
a general outline of aboriginal life in the next century is taking shape.
By many accounts, it will be a future marked by three major factors:
Increasing economic disparity within the native community. Modest, if
any, political progress, Little advancement on native rights in the
courts.
Let's take these issues one at a time.
First, the economic disparity. It stems from a little-publicized trend
over the past decade--the rapid growth of a free-enterprise economy
among Canada's estimated one million aboriginal people, especially in
the cities.
At first glance, that would seem to bode well for the future. However,
as migration from the reserve to the city continues, there are ominous
signs on the horizon. The fact that native newcomers, particularly in
prairie centres, are unskilled and often impoverished raises the
prospect of social fragmentation, greater unrest and increased crime."
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Paul
A. Paul Antone
Analyst, Archaeological Resource Management
Federal Archaeology Office
National Historic Sites Directorate
Parks Canada
Department of Canadian Heritage
The views and opinions expressed here are my own and they do
not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Canadian
Heritage nor the Government of Canada.