Buffalo was a traditional hunt for the aboriginals and the government basically made a game out of hunting them, so they all hunted to the point where the buffalo were close to going extinct and the aboriginals had nothing to hunt or eat. The aboriginal people started starving and the only way they could find help is if they made a deal with the government basically giving up their own rights for survival.The government partly banned the culture of the aboriginals. The aboriginals were thrown on reserves due to unfair deals and they were limited on what they could and couldn’t do. The government didn’t allow some traditional items and ceremonies such as the sun dance and the pow wow. When People were found with items that were banned, an enforcer that the government put on each reserve
They were unsafe because there were no regulations on how they were built. Some tenements didn’t even have windows or fire escapes. As a result many immigrants were caught and killed in fires (OK). Some groups tried to change the living conditions for the better. Immigrants worked in sweatshops that were dangerous.
Life in poverty is hard enough without having to worry about a civil war in your country, let alone around the corner from your village. And also having to flee from town to town in search for safety, leaves him in charge of finding ways to survive by any means necessary. “Things changed rapidly in a matter of seconds and no one had any control over anything. We had yet to learn these things and implement survival tactics, which was what it came down to.” (Beah Chapter 4, p. 29 His mental state of mind becomes a major internal conflict and also is a product of all the environmental conflicts that he is put through. His internal conflicts include not being able to go back home, not knowing what happened to his family, if the
The main cause for the small population is the lack of resources. There is hardly any vegetation, and the game is tough to hunt. For this reason the Inuits control their population. If the first born is a girl, the child is set out on the ice to die. <br>While this is looked unfavorably upon my most other cultures and by the missionaries in the novel, it is simply a way of life for the Inuits.
Native Americans were mainly sedentary and did not relocate often, they also hunted rather than domesticated. They had to hunt for their meat, so they were often exposed to the dangers and difficulties of hunting. This generated a certain amount of respect for wildlife and nature. Native Americans also had to cultivate land by hand due to the lack of large livestock. Since this process was time consuming, there was not much specialization of labor.
Thus, My Body Is My Own Business expresses that “individuals should not be judged according to gender, beauty, wealth or privilege”, which are all of the things which modern culture uses to judge. Watt-Cloutier draws attention to urban/modern culture’s ignorance of and damage to the Inuit culture. She stresses that global warming is causing a major destruction of the Inuit culture, which is greatly dependent on hunting animals. The animals that are hunted are becoming scarce due to modern culture’s lack of care on environmental impacts - global warming and contaminants are causing arctic animals to die/migrate to northern unreachable places. Though modern/urban culture may ask, “Who needs to hunt anymore”, they don’t understand the
Ada’s dream is to be able to live off the land that her father, who has passed, gave her. But that dream is hard for Ada to achieve since she lacks the knowledge necessary to run a farm. In Into the Wild, Chris sought the raw wilds and dangers of living alone in the Alaska bush. But unfortunately Chris didn’t understand how physically and mentally grueling it would be to face Alaska. Even though Chris was looking for a life of isolation without much human contact, he had many helpers along the way.
Hunting requires a lot of skill, stealth and encyclopedic knowledge of a vast amount of animals. Yet hunting is a very unproductive way to eat, it’s unpredictable and has less guarantee that you will have enough food at the end of the day. Therefore people adapted and found plants to harvest. Such as in Papua New Guinea where they would harvest the Sago tree which in an end result can be used as dough. The problem with the Sago tree is that it is very low in protein and also cannot be stored for a long time, thus being less productive of a food
George on the other hand is just a typical farmhand, not as strong as Lennie, but not nearly as dumb either. After Lennie's aunt Clara passed away George took the responsibility of looking after Lennie who was an animal lover, and couldn't take his hands off anything soft and fuzzy. Sadly he didn't know his own strength so he most often ended up killing them. Lennie and George weren't like other farmhands. They had each other, and therefore didn't live the life of solitude and isolation like many other farmhands.
The author uses some technical language such as ‘vitaminC’ and ‘scurvy’ to implie that this is the only source of food, energy, tools and money in the High Arctic, which shows her sympathy to the hunters as hunting for Narwale is the only job they can do. The area in the High Arctic is not suitable for growing other vegetables. Narwhals has a rich source of useful nutrition, so Inuit people catch the narwhal as a main source of food. Also, the Narwhal’s ivory can be used for many things such as ‘harpoon tips’, ‘hunting implements’ and ‘central beam for their small ancient dwellings’. These fully describe that Inuit people can’t live without the Narwale, as it can help the Inuit people to survive.