Indian

[ALLFARMER]

roly, you have received a lot of advice on dealing with natives, and my final bit of advice is to refer to them as first nation people not indians whenever you are speaking with them or about them to your neighbours.

[cowman]

Went to a meeting once where they were pushing the east central Sask. thing and the speaker had a farm there, where he leased land from an Indian band. He said it was a very good relationship that worked for everyone involved.
The Indians had lots of land bought up with land claims money but were not interested in doing much with it. He needed cheap grass...the perfect match!

[roly]

Thank you Agri-friends
I am pleased to see that freedom of speech is stil alive in Canada unlike the UK

Roland

[roly]

Roly I am sure things will work out for you. There are always bad apples in a barrel but natives aren't any worse than the rest of society.
Please keep us posted as you venture into farming in Canada.

[myopinion]

Beware. Freedom of speech is not alive and well in Canada. Different Reservations are extremely different. Many would make great neighbours and don't think that I am 100% Anti Native but there are some very dangerous parts of Sask. There are areas that I would not raise my family.

[cswilson]

Sheesh tell me where I might be living in a 'danger' area and not know it. If you ask me the Irish are what scare me lol.

[roly]

myopinion this frightens me if you can e-mail me with the area of Sask-

chevingtom@hotmail.com

[roly]

WHOA cwilson, now you are treading dangerously !!!!!!!!! As a quiet, meek, mild irish girl, I take exception to that comment !!!! LOL

[cswilson]

Well they are always getting drunk on St. Patrick's day and they have those creepy little leprauchauns almost as bad as those Scotchmen and their Robbie Burn's and haggis-I try and keep my kids away from both.

[cowman]

roly: I wouldn't get all bent out of shape over it. Sure there might be some bad ones around(like any group of people) and without a doubt boys will be boys, but generally I doubt you will have much of a problem.
I don't live anywhere near an Indian reserve but as a boy there were three families living near us on the farm of this old English gent and they were good people despite being desperately poor. This old English guy took care of them as they were not "treaty" Indians and the local farmers used to hire them to do fencing, haying, stooking, cutting brush etc. When this old fellow died they drifted away and we never heard what happened to them for years.
One of the younger guys stopped in probably thirty years later and he had done very well for himself with a large farm at Meadow Lake Saskatchewan!
If Indians get a chance to get off the government tit and can leave the booze alone they turn out very well.