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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beleriphon" data-source="post: 7853039" data-attributes="member: 27847">You'd be surprised on that one. We had a whole government commission about it. I'm kind of assuming you don't live in Canada as well for that, given your reference to Dawes Rolls I'm guessing currently USA.A huge portion of what I've had the opportunity to learn about can be ascribed in a large part to the historic context of the government. And I mean within living memory, not Trail of Tears historic I mean 1960 historic.Very true. From a Canadian perspective though the government actively tried to suppress, and that's being kind, native people's cultures. They forcibly adopted children into white families both here and in Europe in the 1960s. Residential schools happened. If you aren't familiar (Celebrim seems well read so I'll assume he is) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system" target="_blank">here's a link.</a> The last one closed in the mid 90s. There's a very, very broken relationship between the The Crown and First Nations in Canada.Fair enough. I've only ever lived in Canada so I can't really compare.I do agree, that's a more than a bit of an extreme view point.Anyhoo, I suppose what it comes down to for any topic is education and respect. Engage people that are experts on a culture to learn what's important and why. Then apply those people's lessons. If I were going to try to write gaming product involving aboriginal Australian culture I'd be contacting both academics and Australia as well the actual people about whom I'd like to write.</blockquote>

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