A relative is an RN/NP who served in a remote reserve for several years in conjunction with her RCMP partner ...... None of today's social service workers would remain there voluntarily.
They both gave up in utter frustration ! There was no willingness to change, take responsibility, modify life styles, look after the children ..... Lots of alcoholism, conflict..... Her experiences would never get past the G&M censor !
It is irrelevant and certainly not constructive to blame the past - all of humanity has  experienced periods of conquest, settlement, mayhem ...... 
The reserve life style is worse than the infamous Siberian gulags - the latter were temporary and escape was celebrated.