Let me start off this way, Mr. Powlowski.
I travel the world quite a bit. I'm doing some work with indigenous people in Colombia. I've been going back and forth for a number of years now. We've been involved in the United Nations declaration since 1984-85, when the first discussions were taking place at that level, and of course, our president, Clément Chartier, is still really actively involved in international matters.
If you look at the mestizo, as you call them, in their own countries, they are working out their details of who's who. It's no different if you go to Australia, where they call them “yellow”. They're saying they're a mixed people. They're not really us because they have different blood in their veins and a different colour to their skin. There are different versions of how people are looking at it, but what I do recognize when I travel the world is that they're working towards it. They're working out how they all interrelate, understand each other and respect each other's jurisdictions, and each of them is formulating their own levels of voices and levels of positions.
No matter where you travel in the world, you see that happening. It's even in Japan, where they came to see me regarding the Ainu, who are fearful they're going to be leaving this world and losing their very existence—there are only about 20,000 of them left—so they came to ask us how we survived.
There are people out there trying to formulate their existence, their legal rights, and as the world proceeds, if we're still going to be ranked number one, I think we let the indigenous governments figure out our own problems. Nobody should tell us how our government should look.