[news] Can West spin of Tahltan Occupation

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"Elders such as those occupying the band office in Telegraph Creek, for example, have a moral suasion in aboriginal communities that simply does not exist in mainstream society, where seniors are routinely marginalized -- turn 65 and you're out -- and their social role trivialized. Second, elected aboriginal councils with which mainstream government and industry prefer to deal, remain a colonial -- and therefore suspect -- veneer upon these older forms of government."

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/14/102515/641