Posts by marmot

Jam, as far as the casino question goes I can't comment because my community doesn't have one. In fact the people voted against a casino in two separate referendums. Our sister reserve on the Quebec/Ontario/U.S. border has one but I don't know how they distribute the profits.

As for alcohol it depends on the individual, like with any other ethnic group. I can drink most people under the table but my sister is toast after two drinks. I'd say it's a myth. Alcohol abuse, however, is endemic in certain communities because of the lack of economic development and rampant social problems.

What is sorely lacking is a focus on social programs and economic development. My reserve is relatively well-off because of the close proximity to a major urban centre and the tobacco trade, which provides thousands of jobs. The Canadian government, however, is fighting tooth and nail to crush this source of economic activity, however, deeming it illegal. In fact, the Harper government spent over 100 million dollars last year on surveillance, policing and harsh new mandatory minimum jail sentences for people involved in the tobacco trade.

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Who knows when Native Americans was granted citizenship?? Very strange.

by jam in

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how can one not be a citizen of their own land??.

yes the act of 1924 granted u.s citizenship to those native .

americans who were not already u.s. citizens.. prior to the passage of the indian citizens act of 1924, nearly .

marmot

" Nowadays in canda they live on the reserve and earn food money off the government.. they use it then use half of it on booze.... then they beg or 'whore' for more

Now this is only half.. many are above this! (I'm not stereotying all)

The rest work decent jobs but when problems arise at work it always becomes a race issue with them...

Sadly they never get over the harm done to them."

Okay, this is complete and utter bullshit. I grew up on a reserve, I'm Mohawk with a native status card and we do NOT get "food money" from the government, you ignorant jerk. Wanna know why so many native communities "can't get over" what was done to them? Consider this: the aboriginal population in Canada is roughly 4.3% of the overall population, guess what percentage of land we have to live on and create an economy with?

0.028%

That's right, we have only 28,000 square kilometers of native territory, all of the natural resources and riches of this country were stripped away and you wonder why there are economic problems in native communities!? Not to mention the residential schools problem, which was an issue right up until the 1970s, where native children were ripped from their families and denied the right to speak their own languages and robbed of their culture, many of whom suffered unspeakable sexual and physical abuse in these state-approved church-run schools. The social harm done to these kids goes a long way to explaining the staggering percentage of homeless aboriginals and prison inmates.

But of course, we're all just lazy tax evaders looking for a government handout.

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Getting bariatric surgery in March!

by marmot in

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after being on a waiting list for three and a half years i've finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel and am going under the knife for a gastric sleeve operation in march.

i can't tell you how pumped i am because i'll finally be able to re-take my life after being severely overweight for several years.

i gained a ton of weight after being put on meds for bipolar disorder and it made exercising a painful chore.

marmot

They moved up the surgery date, I'm going under the knife on Monday!

Feeling both anxious and a little nervous, but I'm sure everything will go well.

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I am having trouble believing in God...

by thedepressedsoul in

i was raised a jw and i am still one but recently i have been having trouble believing in a god.

this is not meant to offend anyone who does, i am just curious to see if i am the only one who thinks this..... to start, i am a very black and white person.

if 1+1=2 it makes sense to me and i can agree with it.

marmot

A really good couple of books for you to consider would be "Who Wrote the Bible?" by Richard Eliot Friedman and "The Bible Unearthed" by Neil Asher Silberman.

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I am having trouble believing in God...

by thedepressedsoul in

i was raised a jw and i am still one but recently i have been having trouble believing in a god.

this is not meant to offend anyone who does, i am just curious to see if i am the only one who thinks this..... to start, i am a very black and white person.

if 1+1=2 it makes sense to me and i can agree with it.

marmot

Welcome aboard! I was a born-in too (and a real zealous one at that) until I started having doubts in my twenties about the silliness of the WT's literal interpretation of the biblical flood account and the general unpleasantness of the homicidal Old Testament God.

It was a long journey but now I'm a happy and fulfilled atheist.

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Design or Non-Design, finally we know, Darwin's Doubt

by QC in

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if you want to read the definitive explanation on fossils and how life arrived its covered in darwins doubt, by s.c. meyer.

this is a game changer.

the bomb!.

marmot

So it "doesn't matter" that there was a verifiable (by chemical DNA testing) separate hominid species with advanced social constructs and toolmaking skills that lived paralell to modern humans? I'd say that's a pretty big freaking deal.

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Design or Non-Design, finally we know, Darwin's Doubt

by QC in

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if you want to read the definitive explanation on fossils and how life arrived its covered in darwins doubt, by s.c. meyer.

this is a game changer.

the bomb!.

marmot

Neanderthals are like "squatty eskimos" who are "100% human"? Are you for real?

They have sequenced Neanderthal DNA from bone samples and it is not h. sapiens sapiens. Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA differs by 202 base pairs compared to modern humans.

That's chemistry, not conjecture.

(Also, the word is Inuit, not "Eskimo" and they are by no means "squatty" you ignoramus. Their traditional clothing is bulky to keep warm but I've worked with and gone to school with Inuits and they're just regular people, as proportioned as you and me. I mean seriously, you sound like you're from the 19th century.)

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