the average native in Canada is not well off today because they have been used as pawns for the last century by politicians. I say "the average native," because there are some wealthy natives, but they usually hold a position of power within the band...they certainly aren't pawns.
Natives in this country are victims...they're victims of failed government policy, of greedy chiefs and band leaders, of inept and pathetically cowardice politicians, victims of the Indian Act. This has caused a lot of anger, frustration, and pain. But the pain did not come from the "white man," Canadians regardless of their colour, ancestry or their past vote for our leaders...but we don't control them. We are controlled by them.
White people, the Catholic church, the Anglican Church, groundskeeper Willie at the local school....these are all scapegoats used by the entities who have actually caused all the pain in an effort to avert blame from being put on themselves. This is why you don't see politicians get too upset when a couple of dozen churches get torched, and why Trudeau demands an apology from the pope, instead of acknowledging his own miserable and pathetic failure on indigenous policy.