We hear on the radio or television stories, success stories of the transition from Band Council systems to Traditional Governance which takes into consideration all the people rather than select few families thus moving away from nepotism, which can and does tempt deception and corruption. We as a people must fine tune and refocus a vision, the vision that the first peoples passed onto us. This task will not be an easy one because of the many distractions and adopted values which have become a way of life for the majority of our brothers and sisters. We must bring into view, a future which is not tagged with dollars and cents, to one that reveals the larger picture of the give and take of the land, remembering always our responsibility as Caretakers. History reveals itself in the eyes of our people, lost in the maelstrom of a skidrow.
History is drowned by alcohol and drugs.
History is lost in the name of Christ. History commits suicide, rapes, murders, abuses and weighs heavy the eyelids to any kind of bright future. Survival, despite the many tests we as a people have failed, overlooked and ignored. The shackles of colonization will not be shed so easily for we are still bound by the Indian Act which we all know is paternalistic. The Indian Act is not our way.