text: There is hardly a press conference held by First Nations that doesn't include them stating sovereign nation and that they want to be treated as such. Fair enough , then would somebody explain why a sovereign nation expects another nation, to pay for its roads, its schools, its healthcare, its housing, its income, and everything else you can think of which now includes its languages. Before someone replies with the treaties, these things weren't in the treaties, and no one expected that there would be no end to the payments, and that everything would continue to increase.