Yes, that is a really excellent question too, and it's something I've been asked often.
Let's get rid of the Indian Act and then treat us as nations. Treat us as we should be treated, having access to our traditional homelands, which are thousands of square miles for some and millions of square miles for others.
For sure, there is a divide-and-conquer strategy that has been going on for over 500 years. The government, when it suits its needs, will find indigenous peoples who are only too willing to adopt the values of a colonizer, which is that money is the most important thing. For indigenous traditional governments it is important for the people to have a quality of life. It is important for the people to have food sovereignty, to be healthy, but that also means that the land needs to be healthy.
A colonial—