Well said. Let me know when these city council holier-than-thou types give up their Prius, their central A/C, electric lighting, their cell phones, Prada shoes, and GAP clothes to live in the style of "indigenous people". I doubt one of them could survive a week in an actual stone-age culture.
Most so-called “indigenous people” would not give up those things either.
The really poor ‘reservation wonders’ are kept poor by the families that run the particular tribe and are used to gin up more money, money the families use to keep themselves living the life they have become accustom to, after they remodel their current home or build a new one with the latest round of government funds. Added that to their kick backs on drugs, liquor, fireworks and gambling they get quite a haul. Some even have to buy a bank to hold it all, others just stuff the cash into yet another chest of drawers.
No US or Canadian tribe lives in a ‘stone-age culture’ - they are not that dumb. Don’t mistake subsistence living for something out of the stone age as popularly conceived.