Why is it that you believe that Indigenous people need to integrate into our society instead of us trying to integrate into theirs? As First Nations people, they have their right to keep practising their own culture and traditions on their land. We are settler colonials need to step back and respect these people and recognise them as sovereign nations living within our Canadian borders. These aren't the First Nations people of Canada, but the First Nations people in Canada.

Your concept of time as progress is very Eurocentric and goes along with the rest of your notions about indigeneity and citizenship. I urge you to read up on any Indigenous culture and learn more about their teachings, which are much more sustainable than our archaic colonial ideologies. Who is to be the judge that determines which society has progressed more than others? There are varying subjective measures that can be used but none should prevail more than another.