Yep.......I am sure the federal gov't will fulfill the
needs of the natives and pay them handsomely for their
land. The way Canada is going the gov't will probably
hand back all the land back up here to descendants
of the first nations.
I am leaving this weekend to find a bride on the reserve
and I am not even Native American although I may
have some past connections and am currently checking
genaeological records...........In canada being
a minority of any type opens your world up to riches
and security.
Most native villages up here are all for gasline development. No economy in the bush, the big problem. I have lived in several villages and oil industry employs many natives as guards, lifelong employment and they quit drinking themselves to death.
Indians don't have it that good. Half the indian kids are dead before the age of 25 and 80% suffer from FAS. They have just lost about everything over the last 100 years. Can you half blame them for not trusting their government.
The indians where I live really do live off what they catch and kill and not much else. They eat salmon for about 5 months in summer, caribou for a couple months when they show up in fall, kill/eat every porcupine they see, they actually live on rabbits they snare most of the winter(rabbits cooking on pan on woodburner in every cabin). If they as much as see a moose track, they follow it for days till they kill it. Eat ducks they shoot for about a month in spring and wait on ice out to catch grayling, then about starve waiting on the salmon to arrive. No joke, govt don't feed them much here in alaska. They are pretty tough to survive the minus 70 temps and are real decent once you get to know them.
You just got to be the only white boy in a village for a year to understand it all.
Most native villages up here are all for gasline development. No economy in the bush, the big problem. I have lived in several villages and oil industry employs many natives as guards, lifelong employment and they quit drinking themselves to death.
Indians don't have it that good. Half the indian kids are dead before the age of 25 and 80% suffer from FAS. They have just lost about everything over the last 100 years. Can you half blame them for not trusting their government.
The indians where I live really do live off what they catch and kill and not much else. They eat salmon for about 5 months in summer, caribou for a couple months when they show up in fall, kill/eat every porcupine they see, they actually live on rabbits they snare most of the winter(rabbits cooking on pan on woodburner in every cabin). If they as much as see a moose track, they follow it for days till they kill it. Eat ducks they shoot for about a month in spring and wait on ice out to catch grayling, then about starve waiting on the salmon to arrive. No joke, govt don't feed them much here in alaska. They are pretty tough to survive the minus 70 temps and are real decent once you get to know them.
You just got to be the only white boy in a village for a year to understand it all.