Boy oh boy, that's a huge topic. It's not a really well-known portion of history that a lot of Canadians are in regular contact with. I happen to be lucky in the sense that I have done some advanced graduate work and have lived, worked, played, and prayed—done everything—in the mountains of Alberta.
The creation of the national parks in the latter part of the 19th century was a tremendously contentious event with the confederacies of the northern plains—I'm talking Treaty 6, Treaty 7, and Treaty 8 territory, as well as the present-day B.C. first nations. When you have a situation where a land base was once used for medicinal gathering, for hunting, for traditional uses, for spiritual uses, and the next day the walls are up and you're actively excluded, and you could be legally, and were legally, prosecuted for going into those areas, there is an emotional pain at the minimum.
What has happened over the years is that there have been various legal challenges to that, various activism. I think of Jasper, in particular, of the national parks because I had some professional engagements there. They are working busily at repairing that relationship.
It takes an awareness of that history first. It takes good discussions, and then eventually, as things move forward, it takes investment of resources and a willingness to do things differently there.