One of our main things is that it comes right back to funding. Our students, if they have to work after school, may have to work until nine or 10 o'clock, and they would be trying to do their homework at the same time. They're going to be really stressed out come morning, and they're not going to show up for school.
There are many things. As I said, we have to think outside the box on what we can do to keep them in school. One is to make sure these kids do not have to work after school unless they want to work to just have some play money, so they can go out and party if they want to party.
It is a good question. We should be thinking really hard. How will we keep them in school? Like my colleague said before me, many of our young kids don't know what our heritage is all about. I've got kids who come up to me and ask, “Why do you go to powwows? What's that dancing and drumming all about?” It's just simple little things like that. I grew up knowing about that, but the other kids, they don't know. They go to a powwow, and I don't know if they just think it's a big party, all the families getting together.... Actually, that's what it is. It is a big party for all our families, and we're not blood families. We're just families, and we get together.
Our children also need to know our heritage. It would be great to put it into a curriculum for them, so they can attend that certain class.