MEMO:                       NISGA’A LISIMS GOVERNMENT

FROM:                               Sylvia Jessie Stephens

DATE:                                 July 12, 2007

SUBJECT:                          AUDITED STATEMENTS FOR EACH ENTITIY THAT YOU PROPOSE TO DISPLAY ON TWO DAYS

Since you are going to promote the modern day Nisga’a Treaty, go a step further to show the world the financial and audited statements for the various Village Governments, Corporations, Development Groups and just how much we owe as a Nation.

Why do you not display the other three Nisga’a Communities?  What are you so afraid of?  Are you afraid to show these people the truth?  I believe so as there is 80% unemployment in other communities while one of the Forestry companies is setting up a white man’s logging camp on the outskirts of our village of Laxgalts’ap.  

Do the right thing and involve all the other Nisga’a communities and even if you don’t we have a web site that displays all of the corruption that we live with and go to https://www.angelfire.com/blog2/nisgga/index.blog

This memo will be sent to all email contacts around the country and this is just to show them that the Nisga’a Treaty is not like you try to portray it.  Our nation needs to take back control over affairs and take responsibility for reshaping our future so that we can lead to economic successes as other prospering nations throughout Canada.   We have a unique lifestyle and culture and a new approach to economic development and governance will lead to greater nation building measures so that we can each enjoy our modern day Treaty to pass on to future generations to come.

Conclusion:  One Indigenous professor quoted:  “The Band Councils are extensions of Canadian authority and law.  The fact that Canada tolerates a situation where some First Nation leaders are earning more than the Prime Minister while their people live in Third World conditions is a telling sign, he said, because it shows that Canada is willing to pay a lot to those who co-operate.”