After all, I'm not being allowed to continue my traditional
and culurally hallowed way of life. Why should anybody else,
dammit?


Martin Baxter wrote:
Sorry Doug, guess you couldn't see my tongue stuck in my cheek.

Actually, I'm pleased to see that you & katysails took my
statement seriously!

... My
brother was once geo-surveying for Eldorado Nuclear in northern Alberta,
they had a crew of local Indians to cut line for them. One of the
Indians dogs got into a porcupine, or rather the other way around, the
Indians kicked the dog out of their camp and refused to feed it. My
brother took the dog into his camp, took two days to remove all the
quills and another two weeks of TLC to get the dog healthy, de-flead,
de-ticked, well fed.

Yeah but look at all the toxic chemicals he probably used on
the poor dog (that was sarcasm).

... One of the Indians came along and demanded his dog
back!

Yeah right... been there too.
"This ain't your dog no more" is about the best answer I
could come up with.

In truth, a few times I have offered to let people reclaim
their dog, if the dog would walk away from me & toward them
when they called it. Didn't happen, not even once.

It is possible to bully a dog, but is impossible to lie to them.


... I could go on with other stories of senseless slaughter of
caribou and elk, "Noble Red Man" indeed!



Well, they lived under different ecological (and economic)
imperatives. It worked for them... the attempt to continue
that way of life is a disaster on almost every front.

DSK