"[Because] income-generating activity in the "commercial mainstream" contrasts with income-generating activity that is "'intimately connected to' the reserve.. [The] Tax Court of Canada implie[s] that the "traditional way of life" of Aboriginal peoples d[oes] not embrace "economic aspects" .. beyond a subsistence economy."[Footnotes
Self-government has given chiefs and their councils powers which combine those of a province, school board, health board and municipality.