We always try to ascribe the changes that happen to people’s cultures to surrounding factors like the country’s politics or economy or the majority’s way of thinking. We forgot about the wider range of influence that can affect everybody which is the global concept of almost everything people deal with. The Indigenous people and their culture are affected by many factors other than the ones which are within the borders of Canada or the States. I think this is an important point of research that should be highlighted as an influential aspect that has really an indirect impact on the indigenous people. We never think about these external impacts that can really be instrumental in determining the changes facing the indigenous people. Here is a nice research done by one MET student in WIKI:

http://etec.ctlt.ubc.ca/510wiki/Indigenous_Cultures_and_Globalization