I think most of us understand the food store annology regarding the natives.
But there is the other side of the issue.
The natives have to realize, and many do though reluctantly, is that things for them can not remain the same as they were 100 years ago and there is no going back.
The country is 'developing' ( for good or bad ) and the country's population is increasing so these so called desolate lands are becoming encroached and their 'supermarket' is and will be largely disappearing or at least modified.
They have to adapt to the changing situation. By that I mean they need to embrace the changes and be part of them. Granted that largely they are but the transition is slow and painfull.
Their hunting will have to be replaced by them obtaining jobs like the rest of us and go to the grocery store for a large part of their food.
The companies are there to provide some of those jobs. The all season road will bring in the food, supplies and the rest. Power lines will bring a different type of comfort and an opening to the world communication wise. Not to mention easier access to health care etc.
The problem that I see is that they tend to not value the benefits just mentioned but continue to want compensation for what they are losing. Well it is not a loss BUT a trade off.
As for owning land, I do not agree that they 'Own' land for tens of kilometers around but merely have the use of it because they depend on it.
So compensation as if they owned it in no way applies. Compensation is only to the degree that they have lost some of the ease of hunting. A transmission line, road or rail line does not mean that all of a sudden most of the animals will disappear. Strictly speaking these will hardly have any effect, at least directly.
Granted more people entering the area means more competition from southern hunters but it also means more tourists, cottages and all that commercialism. So other jobs become available and more $s to take to the grocery store.
To summ it up, they need to step out from the nineteenth century and into the 21st.
