" .... authentic opportunities for the full reclamation of our identities – our languages, our cultures, our traditions and our relationship with the land and waters. This would require restored jurisdiction, honoured treaties, health care and education. This would bring an end to being forced to live in conditions of poverty.."

The reality is that the FN languages and cultures, traditions .... will not survive as tiny isolated enclaves in the middle of nowhere. Nor will the externalized provision of health care, education and modern conveniences engender the pride and satisfaction of independent achievement necessary to cultural survival. The sad reality is that the FN industry and FN leadership insist on wallowing in a past that never was quite as rosy as propagandised. History moves on ....