My personal point of view on the Indian Act is not limited to the Act. It concerns everything that flows from it, like the system of band councils.
It also concerns the relationship with the federal government, which imposes a way of operating on us, of appointing our representatives, of managing our programs and our services. For us, accountability is backwards.
The way we see the exercise of power is different. Normally, the entire population is involved.
We feel that a way of operating is really being imposed on us that doesn't look like us.
I'm afraid that we will end up losing our identity and our collective memory.