Sure. We talk about colonization and its impact, and one of the things that is very important to groups like Quebec Native Women and other organizations is the reinforcement of identity, the reinforcement of culture and language, as you were talking about.
For us to be a proud people once again, we need to have that back in our schools. We need children to learn the value. They need to learn their roles in society. This is the role of women, this is the role of men, and each one should be respected. Each one is dependent upon the other.
If we look at the problems we face in our community, it's because there's been an attack on our culture. There's been an attack on those values of how we organize ourselves socially.
Until people really understand how important it is for aboriginal people to retain that, we're not going to succeed. We're always going to be a problem, the Indian problem in Canadian society.
That's not what we want. We want to be independent people, people who are taking control of our destiny.
Until we get that in the schools, until we sensitize the public.... All the efforts we've tried have not changed the attitudes of the public much. But until we get that going, we're going to be struggling and, in a sense, spinning our wheels in the mud.