Ancestors WAS: My God everybodies at a dead stop

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renaissanzelady wrote: " ... <snip> ... At one time my family

believed the Native Americans would survive better that the 'white

people' if our technological civiliation collapsed BUT i don't know if

many Native Americans still understand how their anscestors lived ...

<snip> ... "

Considering that the white man's government has exiled most Aboriginals

to reservations where poverty is 'de rigeur' it's pretty easy to say

that, yes, we would survive better than those who rely so much on

technological civilization. We've had to do more with less ever since

reservations were created by the white man's government.

Raven

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hi Raven:

We have noticed that some Native Americans pick and chose what they

use of the modern world, they are semingly not as locked into it as

the predominant culture is. This seems to be a personal or family

choice not always dependent on financial resources or lack of.

We (my husband and I) think this is admirable.

(We first started to observe this when we were in a coffee shop in a

prairie town, 20 or 25 years ago. Some 'good old boys' were talking

loudly and critically of 'the natives' and how they just used some

benefits of modern society.)

Since then we have observed the different customs and traditions, how

people do things around us.

This area we live in may seem predominately white middle class BUT

there are many other cultures.

Also many Native Americans on the Canadian Prairies seem to have close

ties with large extended families. This would help in a time of

economic or technological collapse.

(My grandmother was of Native American ancestry, she chose to 'pass

for white' to survive, she was divorced and owned a business in the

1940's and 1950's, both choices not common for women then. My dad

was, at least in his middle age, proud to be of Native heritage. My

parents taught me to be respectful of different cultures and to

respect the natural world.)

renaissanzelady

> Considering that the white man's government has exiled most Aboriginals

> to reservations where poverty is 'de rigeur' it's pretty easy to say

> that, yes, we would survive better than those who rely so much on

> technological civilization. We've had to do more with less ever since

> reservations were created by the white man's government.

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> Raven

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