Tsawwassen First Nation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej895dV0Quc&feature=related

This film is about the Tsawwassen First Nation who have developed their own laws and policies. The film was created and published on youtube in 2010.
The film discussed how this nation hired educated people to help create their own laws and policies. And how the community and it's leaders had to give a lot of trust in making this happen.
I applaud these people, because you need trust to accomplish this sort of task, I would think. I don't know of anything similiar to this in my own community. I think the way, our greedy "leaders" are continously abusing their position by only hiring their friends or relatives could be looked at a form of their own self government. But I don't think that's how a traditional community would operate. I think it should be fair and whats right for the community as a whole, not just certain individuals.
What Chief Kim Baird says about making mistakes and improving from it, its that way with life itself and everything in life. As long as we can create a starting point for self governance and agree on it, then we should just go with it. I`m not sure what the outcome is yet of their audits but it was their first year and mistakes are bound to happen, I just hope it was a success!
Overall I would say these people have accomplished what they set out to do and are an inspiration to other first nation communities who want to self govern.