Basically, the Aboriginal people are like a hot potato that is tossed from one government to the next. Nobody really wants to handle it.
With respect to prisons, we note that it is mainly our men who end up being incarcerated. What happens is that our men are removed from our communities and directed to programs that are not culturally appropriate and which therefore serve absolutely no purpose. Why not ask what they need and what our communities need? Why are decisions always made from the top down? Why do we develop all these great programs which we throw at the communities and to which we, as small groups of people in small communities, are then forced to adapt? Why is it not the other way around? Every nation is different, and within a single nation, there can be differences between communities. Why don't we start from the grassroots up? So many problems could be solved that way! We are on the ground, in our communities. We know what our reality is. Let's start at the grassroots.
That's what I wanted to say.