Since when are indigenous cultures allowed to hunt but colonial cultures not allowed to hunt? It is this kind of double standard that allows the dominant culture to diminish the viablity of native cultures, to categorize them as stereotypically childlike and primative, doing something that "we know better than to do." It implies poverty as the reason they hunt, it places their spiritual beliefs in the "quaint" category, not to be believed by those who practice the major industrial religions in which multi-national big business has a huge influence. We don't bake our own bread, we buy it pre-sliced. We don't hunt our own meat, we buy it shrink wrapped in little red ingots at the grocery store, a dozen steps removed from the reality of cows and their big brown eyes.

Ake, you aren't taking the gloves off, you're throwing a bunch of nails on the road, trying to scatter the forward momentun of this conversation by people who know what they're talking about. You don't want them to notice your lack of a lucid argument. You just want the last word.

SRS