text: The narrative for the past 10 years has been 'how to get more money into indigenous communities' and the assumed answer has always been 'Ottawa and the taxpayers need to send more money.'  Where is the incentive for folks to contribute to their own community by working, paying taxes and building businesses to make these communities self-supporting, like each and every non-reserve does?  When a town needs to upgrade its water supply, it isn't protesting in Ottawa and writing angry op-eds, it just raises the local mill rate for the town-dwellers and pays for it.  That is the model the reserves need to be seeking.  Now I know it is naive to see a remote reserve nor even an urban doing that over night - bottom line is the kids need to acquire the job skills by getting educated and experienced in the 'colonial world,' which may not seem politically correct, but it works for all the other ethnic cultures in Canada many of who come here from poverty and much worse.