To my mind (just thinking out loud here) the problem is this:
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The traditional Native Canadian life-ways gave the people their meaning and dignity.
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The traditional Native Canadian way of life is not really compatible with modern society.
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Modern society is not going away any time soon.
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In the past, the “solution” was forced assimilation - as in the Residence Schools. This was not good.
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Now, we as a society have adopted the position that natives are to be supported in their traditional ways on their traditional lands: see point 1.
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But this doesn’t work either (see points 2 and 3). What we get is not Native Canadians living a traditional life, but rather a bunch of very isolated slums with the inhabitants on welfare.
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These people behave much like people stripped of feelings of self-worth and dignity, living in slums and on welfare always behave - badly. Drinking, drugging, crime and abuse are rampant.
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Various programs such as “sentencing circles” and the like are designed to ameliorate the harshness of the results. Ditto with increased welfare and spending on cultural pursuits.
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However, letting abusive alcoholoics out of jail and paying people to do their ethnic dance or whatever do nothing to resolve the root of the problem - the collective loss of self-worth and dignity that go with the loss of a whole way of life.
Myself, I do not know what solution for this problem can be found; all I can say is that the well-meaning attempts to keep these people in stasis are not having a good effect.