[PEN-L:764] Re: re Bhoddi vs Proyect

[boddhisatva <kbevans@xxxxxxxxx>]

		To whom..,


	Look, I never said that indigenous people should give up their
culture.  The only thing I said about culture was that it is entirely
appropriate for native people to be able to carry out rituals and entirely
necessary that native people be respected.  I questioned whether their
cultures can survive a great shift in mode of production but it was a
*question*.


	What I don't question is that the ancient economies of indigenous
people are not viable, as C. Phillips points out.  People raising children
in hunter-gatherer lifestyles in modern Canada and America might be cited
for child abuse.  They would certainly be below the poverty line.  Thus
the question becomes how a group of people, isolated by prejudice and
alienation from the dominant culture, can join the struggle to free the
world's oppressed people - themselves included.




	peace