Angry at cottagers, ranting and raving

Oh no! Those poor rich white folks are going to be out a cottage, how very devastating. Imagine being ripped from a place that you love, that holds so many memories, that you have shared with family only to be left without anything.

Globe & Mails article in the Saturday edition "Let Us Back Into Our Cottages" by Kelly Grant straight up infuriates me.

The injustice these people feel about losing their cottages is so utterly ridiculous in the grand scheme of things. They are trying to save a sweet dime by buying into the cottage leases on Indian territory and then get all mad if their lease does not get renewed.

How about being ripped off your land for no apparent reason and being taken away from your family and losing your culture? Remember that?

Here is a quote from the piece: "Our families are blown apart," says Barbara Bobo, 59, one of the exiled Hope Bay cottagers. " ... This was [our] spiritual home."

Give me a break, just go back to your Richmond Hill home and forget that you ever had a piece of that land to even occupy. Then pay the real prices for a cottage and get over it. Keep up with the Jones'. Spiritual home, well it was never your home to begin with.

Here is another brilliant excerpt: The Hope Bay cottagers lament the breaking of their bond with the Chippewas. "It comes down to trust," Ms. Bobo says. "There's a lot of people who don't trust the natives. There's a lot of people who don't trust the government. We did. ... We were the optimists."

Not trusting the government, well there is a good start, that is probably the first wise thing that was stated. Not trusting "the natives," well that is just silly the land is leased, that is why it cost 1/4 of the price as it normally would have. If they wanted security the should have paid the big dollars. It is almost inevitable that the politics will change and someone will get the inkling to take their land back.

I have a friend who lived on a reserve where they leased out the land to cottage dwellers. He said there was so much racism present on their own home lands. Like there wasn't enough racism in the general population, so it just had to be present on the reserve too. He said the cottage people would always seem almost upset that there were all these Indians around.

I am just upset, infuriated, angry, irate and mad at this issue. I wish these leases never existed in the beginning and then the little land that is owned could be honored and loved for whom the creator intended it for.

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