In my little community, the best way I illustrate that is by the story of my dad and my mother. They are the first nations Brady Bunch. My dad had three kids and my mom had three kids. They got married. My dad's house was too small, so he built a larger house right beside his first house. We grew up and went to school and college and the whole thing. When my dad passed on into Heaven, he didn't have a credit card. Anybody else who owned two homes in Canada would probably be considered well off, but not my dad.
Before I became a chief, and I'm still wondering if that was a good idea, I was a banker. When we did our risk management systems analysis on our first nations clients, the first thing they taught us was to strike out the assets of their homes on their balance sheet.