21 people lost their jobs at Dakota Tipi First Nation after the community shut down the Crazy Horse Convenience Store last Tuesday. Councillor Karl Stone explains their plight.

Closed signs on the store"The problem that we're having is we're overly scrutinized by the provincial government. We want to bring prosperity into the community, and try to create employment, and trying to move forward with the economic initiatives, but because of the provincial red tape red-taping first nations to death, it's hard to create prosperity."

He notes, "They say that we're tax exempt, we're tax free on the first nations, but really we're not. We do pay taxes. It's kind of a hypocritical system."

Stone adds they regret they had to make the closure.

"We had to close the store. We had no choice because we exhausted all avenues and all our resources to operate the store. We had no alternative but to close down. We had to make a decision."