I think I can speak most to the post-secondary environment. I am aware of the issues in K to 12, but I am more aware of the issues and the gaps in post-secondary training. Often what I would see as an aboriginal educator is the need for some kind of remediation. Often the aboriginal students aren't quite ready to jump into a Bachelor of Commerce with the rest of the mainstream students.
I'd like to emphasize the significant gap in funding. On-reserve funding sources have a preference for funding their members towards trades or bachelor's degrees. If someone wanted to take entrepreneurship training, that would not be a preference for the first nation community to fund. If someone wants to get entrepreneurship training that's less than one year and that's geared towards assisting them in developing their own job on reserve, there are very few funding sources available, especially on reserve.
Other than the first nation itself funding the members, very few resources exist. Also, there is such pressure on local band resources that they cannot possibly fund all of their members. The need is so excruciating that the choice comes down to who you are going to invest in, the people who are ready to take the post-secondary training, or the people who are the most vulnerable, through life skills training, etc.
There just aren't adequate resources, especially in interventions that are less than a year or certificate-type programs that are actually mandated to create local employment. I absolutely think that more needs to be done in in-reach programming. All of the programming that we are talking about is getting people out of their communities, which some just don't want, rather than having programming that's culturally relevant and meets their needs come to them.