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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
About 25 years ago at some fancy dinner, I said it pretty much like this, although we were talking about several destitute native bands in Alberta. Man, did I get myself in trouble from some lady sitting at our table. She was a wife of some government official, never worked a day in her life. She gave me a lecture on how despicably un-Canadian this would be to not take care of the aboriginal communities and how they are an integral part of the Canadian fabric and how their culture of hunting and gathering must be respected and how we can all learn from them... I was young and she got me thinking about this quite a bit... Still think she was full of s..it, even after all of these years. Oh, good memories.  |
The culture of hunting and gathering is being replaced by a culture of poverty, crime, and substance abuse. I can only imagine what things will be like in another 50 years...