Once, facetiously, I said, "If we tried to give the country back to the Indians with the condition it's in these days, they probably wouldn't take it."
Looks like I was wrong about that. Lately, there's been a rash of demands by our venerable aboriginal community both hither and yon for a return of not only their traditional lands, but a return of their traditional hunting and fishing rights.
The lands, they could have, perhaps, if they can successfully wrest them from the tightly clenched fists of the existing establishment, which will insincerely but quite graciously try to pacify them in hopes of continuing to seem to be doing something while actually avoiding that like the plague.
However, the hunting and fishing rights, such as they'd like to have within one of our access-restricted forested water reservoir areas, I'm against. Their tearful pleas of needing these rights for the continuance of their traditional ways of living strikes me as being more than a little hollow, a bit dishonest, actually. And I say that because our local aboriginals not only shop for their groceries at the same supermarkets we all use, but they also work there, and probably get an employee discount. They look and act healthy, and most of them are in much better shape than I am.
They profess to respect and honor nature and the earth, and if so, then why do they need the right to hunt game and catch fish that are already endangered from encroachment of civilization and recent climate changes? I just can't connect the dots on this one. This just doesn't make a lot of sense to me, I'm sorry. Leave those deer and those fish alone!
Makes sense, Ray
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