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]]> By: melvin john /bill-c-10-attacks-indigenous-economic-sovereignty/#comment-14339 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:33:24 +0000 /?p=7932#comment-14339 Hello and thank you for this article, I am a Tobacco Store Owner and have a import and export license sell Tobacco and Tobacco related province from the Federal Indian Affairs Minister in 2011 and I have been in business since 2010 under BCR, Federal Band Council Resolution. I have tried to make myself known with Grand River Tobacco but have been refused any real call backs a few years ago to get a good price. So I went to a friend from there and got local prices and at time was still good from prices in Alberta. Mind you I was not importing truck load but small load under 2000. Yes we are discriminated at home with our Banking Institutions and yes our Band Council often our main employers and often any form of independent economy doesn’t work as well as Government Businesses or services. What I do content with is that as a First Nations Band Member owned Independent Business we assert our Rights under our Sacred Treaty which gives us the Power to Coordinate our own Economies free of prosecution. We assert our Governing Structure were absolute in the time of signing our sacred treaties and we assert our jurisdiction is held with Treaty 6 region and within Canada. It is our belief if we wanted to do business in another First Nations area we are obligated to ask leadership to begin creating Trade and Commerce. We will stand our ground on the issue of our ability to carry out business according to our ancestral rights given to us as First Nation and those reflecting Treaty Obligations. We are still wanting to create Trade with our Brothers to the East.

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