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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
I think there would be a rather large contingent of people that would say that technological advancemet aside, the standard of living for many Natives today is lower than it was 500 years ago.
I would say that at this point, the debate is how much is self inflicted, and how conterproductive to fixing the situation are claims such as this one about cell phone signals.
I've been through a lot of reserves, and I gotta say, living in a teepee and hunting for a living would probably be preferable to some of the places I've seen.
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I tend to agree with what you're saying. Before the arrival of Europeans and their industry, I don't think many native people had to worry about running into contaminated water anyway. Likewise, they probably didn't worry about having to treat many diseases and other ailments since a lot of them didn't exist until the Europeans showed up.