So yeah...this is a very tricky situation...
Imagine you are a business with a very finite resource and quota of what you can catch and sell, but only able to operate 3 months in a year. This causes you to scrounge among fierce competition and yet you are in direct competition with a select number of people who are protected by law due to birthright to be able to operate 12 months a year with lenient quotas implemented due to special status.
Now imagine that those same select people decide that they are not bound by any rules including the special status already provided to them, and choose that they are self ruling and self regulating, starting commercial level fishing outside of conservation fishing restrictions with large amounts of waste directly impacting the businesses bound by the government restrictions.
I am very familiar with the plight of fishermen and the areas. Fishing, especially for lobster is quite strict. It's a very poor region impacted by quotas and overfishing It's an incredibly touchy subject. Anger has reached the tipping point clearly.
There's no question there is racism inherently involved, but it's not as black and white as it seems and it is 100% government generated racism.
I found these articles that preceded the current events that better explain why this is happening. The bolded in question speaks in much greater detail of the problem.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...ille-1.5727920
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...oats-1.5742365
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/m...hery-1.5727622
At the same time I will be the first to say that native americans do need special status, but what does special status mean? That's the whole problem currently happening, as the group believes they are not bound by imposed 'colonial rules' no matter how lenient they are and no matter if they are done to conserve the fishing industry. There is no quick solution to this.