They approach it quite differently, in the sense that they have a blood quantum rule that they use. The blood quantum approach is starting to spill into our area through customs, through the border and the border issues. Our people are now being asked to show their blood quantum before they're allowed into the United States. The U.S. approach is very different in that way. We don't use that approach here.
The interesting discussion that's currently being held, and that we've gone through already, is their boarding school experience and the impact of boarding schools on the Indian tribes in the United States, because with that, too, there's a path similar to what we've experienced in Canada. They both are culminating in the same question: How do we go forward in a good way?
Although they use that blood quantum approach and we don't, there's still good news in the sense that there's a solution for a way forward, but that solution has to include a treaty lens. That's our main concern, because treaty membership is being impacted as well. There are some estimations that there will no longer be any treaty Indians pretty soon and thus no treaties, so the American approach may be necessary as well.
