If you truly want to try to understand Canada’s First Nations ‘issue’, please read this piece by Richard Wagamese.
When you’re down to the last thing that represents a connection to who you are, when you’ve watched everything that was part and parcel of the story of your people get torn away, and you’re left to stand with only one thing to hold onto, you will cling to that last thing with everything you have in order to not disappear. Any human being would.
The view from here 