Aunty,
No need to defend me. I can handle it myself as I do know my facts.
Todd,
you can show your ignorance and call me ignorant but here is my point and was my point then. Culture is one thing, fine. But historically, the native americans did use nets but they were built of weaved cedar, pulled by cedar canoes. Not nylon drift nets pulled by jet boat. The nets were primarily used to herd fish though some were kill nets. They were at the longest 50 to 100 feet not hundreds of yards. The modern gillnet fishery has nothing to do with tradition and was a strickly european creation.
Similar point was taking big game. Recurve bow.....300 win mag.
Worse yet Casino gaming.......Hoop and pole or jacks.............becomes 5 star casinos with blackjack, poker and slots. Not quite teh historical way of doing it. Do I want them in hte stone age, no. But do I think they should build five star casinos because it was their tradition to play stick and hoop, that is a bit of a stretch if you are saying it is cultural. Poker, slots, blackjack, craps, and all the other games have nothing to do with native american "tradition". Thats the point and call it ignorant if you like but dont pretend your all knowing and the rest of us dont know what is going on. Now lets all be nice and move on. Sorry for teh dust up created.