Casino money comes in useful. Around here they have taking to buying up
sacred land that they strongly feel should not be developed. I say *good
plan* as the feds have demonstrated that given enough ::cough:: incentive
they absolutely will allow a four-lane highway to be put through
thousand-year-old petroglyphs.

Dana


On 12/9/05, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I wonder if the money from the casinos has an impact to see whether
> it's the poverty or the cultural. They still have the worst land to
> live on so culturally they can't live the way they did traditionally.
> Just wondering out load.
>
> On 12/9/05, G wrote:
> > In the United STates, it's not a generalization...it's a sad statistical
> > fact. I haven't seen the numbers recently...but I know that
> traditionally,
> > alcoholism has been disproportionately higher in native american
> communities
> > than in statistically similar communites of other cultures.
> >
> > Decrying the stats as "stereotyping" doesn't help the problem.
> >
> > Again, this is in the US. I have no idea about indigenious Canadians.
>
> 

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