Ellie’s home, like most in Six Nations, isn’t connected to municipal water. On the sprawling reserve in Southwestern Ontario, roughly 70 per cent of households, or about 8,500 people, are without piped, reliable drinking water.
The Six Nations reserve is a 1 hour 20 minute drive West from Niagara
Well, the first thing would be that you own your own land. That is not the case on reserve land. No one owns their own home or land there, nor can they. That means no equity or ability to take out a second mortgage to fund digging a well or install a cistern.
It would behoove you to read up on the Indian Act and how it works, what/who it controls and the limitations First Nations people face because of it.
In what world do you need a second mortgage for a well or cistern? You could do it with an unsecured line of credit unless you’re an idiot and destroyed your credit rating.
And again … It would behoove you to read up on the Indian Act and how it works, what/who it controls and the limitations First Nations people face because of it.