I don't think your description off the lives of Indigenous people is very accurate, pBurns9. It seems to me that the "average" person who lives on a reserve right now is either in a city or very close to a city, or within an hour or two of one.

One mistake that I think a lot of people make is belief that no progress is being made in Indigenous people's lives. Many Indigenous people are becoming very well educated - in native studies and Indigenous languages, yes, but also in law and business. We are mistaken when we believe that it is only they who must learn and change. As a people they are doing that. One day the settler culture will wake up and notice that we are in the stone age, and unable to cope in a progressively competitive world.