Without a land base you're not a people, you're not a nation. That's been a struggle for our people for over a century now.

He's assisting us and showing, for instance, the family's big concern to us, the children had no clothes; how do they access their clothes now, how do they get into their home, things of that nature.

A constitutional obligation, a legal obligation, has been ignored and denied by Canada, and Canada, in my view – and I'll use layman's language – robbed us of our land.

It is far different from what we saw last time, just everybody was locked out and you were told a week later what was going to go on. It seems like there is some improvement that has been put in place – that's making a difference already.