Maybe so.  I am not saying the residential school payments are necesssarily wrong.  But First Nations people already enjoy many advantages -- no tax if you live on a reserve, up to 35k/yr for university, 42K per capita in transfer payments to Nunavut in 2016.

By contrast, my grandfather lived through the war and while his family was evacuated to the country where there was a  thriving black market, all his kids had running sores by war's end due to malnutrition.  He was only allowed to enter Canada with his 9 children by signing on as a farm hand for a year.  The pay was a tiny house, $50/month, and all the milk his family could drink..  The kids were teased for their clothes and accents.

But he wasn't bitter about it, nor did he think anyone owed him anything.  When his stint as a farm hand ended, he bought a tiny farm and worked it happily til he died.  Each of his children went on to raise happy families of their own.

He got kicked hard but got up again -- with no handouts.