What's life like on an Indian reservation?Do you have Indian reservations in your country?
>>216258135>What's life like on an Indian reservationIt really depends on the reservation.It varry from a 95% woodlands + 5% strip mall like the Tsuu T'ina Nation 145, or be a small squares of forests like some of the one's you see in BCAnd that's not accounting varying sociological factors which I assume is comparable to The States.>Do you have Indian reservations in your country?There's a shit ton of them in Alberta.
>>216258135Is picrel the North Carolina Cherokee rez? That's supposed to be one of the richer ones. The poor ones are like Skid Row if it was rural.
Do they still live in Teepees or other traditional houses? How do they support themselves without the buffalo?
>>216258452>How do they support themselves without the buffalo?They don't.
>>216258452Native Americans were so diet-cucked by rations and are so removed from their original food sources that ration-based staples like frybread (dough fried in lard) and coffee thickened with flour to a pasty consistency are considered "traditional" foods on the rez
>>216258697>Coffee with flour Sounds awful.
>>216258721All Western ration-based diets given to the conquered indigenous have been terrible. Australians also gave aboriginals who came in from the bush to the towns a sugar and flour based diet and they literally immediately started dying of disease and many were only cured when years later they let them go back to bush and eat their traditional diet of kangaroos, lizards, grass seeds, quandong fruits, etc
>>216258776Of course they tried to push those diets on their own populations as well. We just had more money and freedom. There is some weird impulse in rulers to prevent their subjects from eating meat.
>>216258721Ehh, there are worse things to start the day with than caffeine mixed with complex carbohydrates
>>216258830>There is some weird impulse in rulers to prevent their subjects from eating meat.What's funny is that in the Western Desert, a group of aboriginals were actually convinced to stay in town instead of in the desert when whites offered them sugar. It's literally crack. >McMahon did not want to put the group under any pressure to join the community, but he witnessed the moment they were persuaded. "It was unthinkable that they would stay out there because the modern world was so seductive. One of the fellows suggested, 'Give them a taste of the sugar and they'll be in for sure.'">Indeed, the taste of sugar had a big impact on the Pintupi Nine and it is this aspect of their story which now animates them most. "I tasted the sugar, we didn't know what it was, but it was so sweet. I tasted the sugar and it tasted so sweet - like the Kulun Kulun flower. My mother tasted it and it was so sweet. It was good," says Warlimpirrnga.https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30500591
