Changes are coming to Indian reserves in Ontario for a fuller and better life, mostly on the initiative of Indigenous Peoples themselves, but with the support of the Department of Indian Affairs. Housing and other construction to establish modern, well-serviced communities, summer-winter recreation facilities, schools and day-care centres, training in marketable skills--all these add up to a new look and a new optimism apparent on reserves visited in the film from Hudson Bay to Walpole Island near Windsor.