These are all nice ideas and reports but one conversation that is often overlooked when it comes to indigenous people being incarcerated ... (and to a large degree how anyone of any race is incarcerated) ... is how we as a society should do our very best to figure out how to better take care of everyone in every way.
Better housing, better education, cheaper food, cheaper fuel, more small scale economic opportunities and businesses, supporting people rather that coddling big business or big corporations .... taxing big corporations and sending that money to help people instead, indigenous and everyone else.
Invest in people now rather than wait until their lives are so fallen apart and spend money on imprisoning them.
Many studies have shown that it is far cheaper to invest in people while they are healthy ... rather than in trying to rehabilitate them after they have failed in life.
The conversation should not be centered on the poor and disenfranchised .... we should focus on how we should hold the wealthiest and most powerful in our country to account and ask why they selfishly tie up our economy and wealth at the expense of everyone else