Fair, but the discussion just becomes great big circles. If we want them to drill their own wells (or build their own houses, etc.), we have to give them the financial capacity to do that, and in order for them to have the financial capacity to do all that stuff, they need either the title to the land and what's on it/under it or the financial ability to benefit from it (taxes, royalties, etc.). How much national income are we willing to forego? Would be more or less than the money we currently spend to keep FNs as federal 'wards'? Is revenue-sharing or title what they want? I'm not convinced that is settled within the multiple FN communities.
It might be a little easier for a FN community near the populated south, where they could maybe convince a company to plunk a factory down in the territory, but for remote communities, 'the land' is all they have. Even in the south, corporations are reluctant to invest on FNTs without federal government invention because the application of business law WRT to FNTs is a bit of grey zone.