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To: VAUGHN who wrote (535)	12/18/1997 4:17:00 PM
From: c.r. earle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7235

Vaughn, You are right. This is a sensitive issue. One that too many non-natives are insensitive to. Boy we sure have done much for the aboriginal people in this country. They don't have to pay taxes, they get preferential treatment, and they want all this land back. Well exccccuuuussssse me. We tried to assimilate them, we told them they could not use their own language, they could not use their customs, we tried toeradicate their culture. Something like 50 aboriginal languages have dissappeared in the last hundred years. We stole most of their land, set up little reserves so they could starve without the rest of us seeing them, took their children from them and placed them in residencial schools and did not allow their parents to visit them, took their dignity, and did not even allow aboriginal people to vote until 1960. Unbelievable they could not even vote in their own country. And then white people wonder why their suicide rate is much higher than the national rate, especially among young people, alcoholism is much higher rate than the national rate, spousal and children abuse is much higher than the national rate, their poverty rate is much higher. Many reserves do not have running water. Disease is much more problamatic. Your right Vaugh, we sure have done alot for them!!!! We will never be able to right the wrongs we have inflicted on the indegenous people of this country. But it would be nice if people could at least realize what has been done rather than spewing these nonsensical arguments that we somehow are doing this great service to them. Hell we owe them. P.S. I apologize to all for this off topic rant. But it makes my blood boil the ignorance that still exists regarding the aboriginal community.