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. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:187198 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
