09-24-2003, 02:31 PM
Quote:What qualities have saved their asses as opposed to american indians?
"Indians" are not "almost extict," but your perception is common. Dominant culture feels that because Indians aren't organizing and storming DC that the whole ethnicity has been erased. Native people and ways and cultures are very much alive, some being practiced regularly by contemporary people not of native ancestry. Not getting swallowed up by what most people know. It hasn't changed much in 500 years: native culture keeps to itself. You don't see it, you think it isn't there.
There are literally hundred of millions of full-blood "indians" in the US and Canada.