I think I have to go to bed now... haven’t sleep for almost 22 hours... See you later...
....”do they actually hunt for food there?”....
No, they usually go to WalMart, especially on the first day of the month when their government welfare checks arrive. I’m afraid that our Indian Reservation system is rather sad, and that disappoints me. They were a once noble people (and most still are) who now depend on government assistance for their needs. My husband is a Cherokee Indian who was able to go to university and has a very successful business. He is very proud of his American Indian heritage.
We need more dialog like this. It will foster more understanding and respect between our two nations.
They do in Alaska. Subsistence hunting.
Not only American Indians hunt for food, but so do many Americans in general. Coming from a pristine continent of vast size with many animals, the earlier pioneers had plenty of wild game to eat. We manage our game now, to avoid overhunting and extinction of animals, but about 60-70 million Americans hunt every year, and a fresh deer, ducks, geese, quail, turkeys, rabbits, squirrels, etc goes a long way to help the food budget.
Deer have never been as abundant as they are now, even back to the earliest times. This is because they can survive very nicely in suburbia on people’s garden shrubs and plants, and where Americans do not hunt because there is too many people close together. The deer become a very big nuisance, and even cause fatalities, when they jump out in front of automobiles and cause accidents.