My dad got a house through the DVA, but his partner, who really got shot up in Italy--First Division--lived on the reserve and couldn't get a house. He lived in a log shack. And yet they were veterans of the same regiment.
It was partly their own band that did this to them. They said, “You've got land here. Why do you need land?” They were negotiating.
As to the $2,400 in gratuity payments, whether or not you were a first nations person you got that thing, but half of those guys didn't get it. I think that's why the payment was made of $20,000; it was the gratuity payment.