Good post Hugh, like you're other posts, very insightful.
Honestly, I am finding it hard to tell where the BS starts and the water has been muddied. I heard a well known Chief from BC talking on CBC the other day, he has been on quite abit lately, he couldn't remember the name of leader of the opposition (O'Toole) and referred to him as "the bald guy".

The divide between the Native community and the Citizens and the Government of Canada will never draw closer so long as there is leadership that shows classless disrespect and zero integrity. People like that don't want to forgive and forget, they want it to carry on until they have everything.

As I said before, reconciliation means taking away Constitutional rights and privileges from the Citizens of Canada, even though they had nothing to do with it.