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Indeed, we shouldn't have any trouble figuring out why 100% of the inmates at the Kingston Prison for Women are Aboriginal women. We forget that rehabilitation and prevention of crime and delinquency are important, and that in order to prevent crime and delinquency, the First Nations have to take their own situation in hand and once again control their destiny. As long as that control is not there, any hope we may have of their being able to start over again with something new that will continue to develop, will be dashed, generation after generation. It is impossible to consistently tackle issues like crime and delinquency and all the other problems facing the First Nations without looking at the root cause of those problems. And the root cause is the fact that the First Nations do not enjoy a right of self-determination, because the federal government is still keeping the First Nations under and preventing them from taking control of their future, just as it did 130 years ago with the Indian Act, and as it did even before that when it betrayed all the wampum that the First Nations and the Europeans based their agreement on.
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