Andy wrote:

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>> Indians seem to be able to do lots of things that the rest of us can't
>> do. They can hunt and fish where no one else can and the don't have to
>> worry about fish and game seasons like we do. They are allowed to hunt
>> and trap because it is their traditional lifestyle. A lot of Europeans
>> are traditionally hunters and trappers. Canada and the US were opened up
>> for settlement by hunters and trappers. There were a lot of Europeans
>> who were in the whaling business for generations spanning centuries,
>> but only natives can kill whales now.
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> Ya know, I'd be willing to bet if we let America follow the Indian tribal
> traditions the world would be a better place.


I'm not so sure about that. Life in the Americas was not all fun and
games before the arrival of Europeans. There was no indigenous " first
nation" in the Niagara region. The Indians who lived here had been wiped
out in a war between the Iroquois and the Hurons. There was a lot of
warfare between the indigenous people, and slavery was common. We are
all supposed to buy into the idea of their inherent respect for nature,
like how they used every bit of the animals they killed. Of course they
did. They had to because when they moved into an area they killed
everything they could, and then they had to move on to someplace where
the game had not all been killed off. Europeans use everything from the
animals they raised and slaughtered. There isn't much left from a cow
that is raised. Carcasses are rendered and used for all sorts of things.


> After all, they were here first. What did we do? We shoveled them off onto
> reservations. The most shameful thing ever! Society is so misled!!!

Those of us with European roots also saw other groups moving in and
taking over our land. It has happened all over the world, and sometimes
good things came of it.