Well, that's the problem with, for example, the AFN in Alberta. Some AFN colonies get cash and others don't and, surprise, the AFNs without complain, usually environmental or traditional resource based, while the paid AFNs are eerily quiet; about everything. Same problem here. It's resources like whales and salmon, moose and trees and lands and seas. This is the real problem, not the transference of whales to gold, salmon to diamonds, moose and trees to oil. The AFN claim traditional resources as a way of claiming the transference. The only problem is the AFN is territorial, which the indigenous peoples are not and never were - beyond the concept of hunter gatherers, but not traditionally nomadic, following natural resources all over North America and adventuring to today, like the voyagers finding sea canoes and rivers of resources.
As we've said in the past, the future is not the AFN. It is a direct benefit to each and every Aboriginal, regardless of where they've been told to live and borders. This is the only way to be fair in all this. The Prime Minister has responded with direct benefits to those who can afford to have children. This is, we feel, is a traditional way of taking benefits away from Aboriginals - the government should do this for everyone, not just Aboriginals. A greed that shows itself in the recent AFN and provincial crowns deals. So, the government ends up paying again after admitting they made errors in benfiting Aboriginals - usually when the cash and resources are long gone.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/clyde-river-nunavut-takes-on-oil-industry-over-seismic-testing-1.3014742?cmp=rss
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