I want to come at your question from a different angle.
Having thought that Indian self-government was going to resolve all our problems, I still hear out in the communities that they're scared to even entertain the idea that we can really govern ourselves. Consequently, organizations such as Dilico still have their clutches on our children, because our leadership, those 14 chiefs, maybe not all of them, won't entertain the idea that, for instance, we were the ones who said we could get rid of a lot of problems if we transferred responsibility and jurisdiction of child care to right within our community.
Why do we need a big structure that requires so much money just to keep the structure going? Rather, we should get that money into the communities, so that the four of us in here could come up with the idea of how we want to take care of our children.
What about custom adoption? What about all those things that we know how to do from our own people, from our own way of life from before? We didn't have all you people here to take care of us or our children. We took care of ourselves, and we had a way to do it. Why can't we do that again? If you get four or five women sitting around talking about that, you're going to get something going in the community, and that's what I think our vision is as an organization. We want to take all that responsibility from them and give it to ourselves. Within a framework of self-government, we should be able to do it, shouldn't we?