If you want to look at the really big picture, we have to look at the root causes of inequity. We have to look at poverty. We have to look at privilege.
Right now, I believe there are three things indigenous youth need. They need education, not for the inherent wisdom of western education, but for the credentialism. We need indigenous young people to participate in a good way in the Canadian economy. We also need indigenous youth and all people to understand the history and to understand what went on to get to where we've gotten to today, and then we need to backfill that hurt and that anger with support, nurturance, resources, elders and ceremony. That is what indigenous youth need.