I feel like shooting myself in the head.

Honestly, I'm so incredibly bored.

I don't think anybody not from Coastal Northern Canada can truly understand how bad a Native Reserve can be.

 

spooner seriously you need help. Talking like that is not healthy

 

Yeah, I'm sure not working, living off the government for free and getting high all day is such a terrible life.... You can always leave the reserve and actually get a job. But why do that when you can spend my tax dollars right? Do shoot, one less mouth for my pay to feed.

 

Fucking racist

 

Haha... that dude didn't even know what brad was talking about anyway.

 

It was an exaggeration... But it will suck for the next couple days. I'm working from 5 in the morning until noon, half hour break (which is just about over) and then from 12:30 to seven.

That isn't the bad part.

The bad part is what the hell I should do after... I've already climbed every hill around, explored the island, taken lots of pictures. Read tons. Bleh.

I'm out on Friday, packing that night, then moving in with the girlfriend for my L1 the next day.

In other words, I'm not actually depressed, just bored as all shit.

 

If you'd ever spent any time on a reserve, you wouldn't be jealous in the slightest.

But you'd still be ignorant and racist.

 

Those too lame to know spooner, judge spooner...

 

Please don’t shoot yourself in the head, but if you must put the gun in your mouth because a temple shot could ricochet along the inside of the skull and turn you into a drooling, bed wetting, brain-dead (but still alive) mess

Hotwater

 

Did you come to teach me a lesson about the Tsimshian?

This reserve is a hotbed of incest (it's isolated and it happens. Kincolith is worse). It has a Fetal Alcohol Syndrome rate hovering somewhere around 10 percent - enough to cripple a community. An unemployment rate hovering around 85%. Ridiculously high rates of alcoholism and drug abuse. Stray dogs everywhere (attacking people because they're starving). 4 year old kids playing unsupervised on the streets at 10 pm. An essentially illiterate village. People living in houses with broken windows. There is garbage everywhere.

Combine that with the fact that the government gives them incentives to stay here (w/ no jobs, and no opportunity) and you have a shitty situation.

But please, inform me of where I'm mistaken.

But now I have to go back to work.

 

^ I live 5 mins from a Native Reservation in New York, and that describes it perfectly.

Its cool though, cause on the rez there is like 3 headshops, tons of pot, and everything is tax-free

Well, I dont know about the incest shit... but who knows what goes on behind closed doors? And I gotta be fair, there are nice parts on the res. Thats because there are a shit-ton of gas and smoke-shops that bring people from all over the place to buy their shit tax-free... One of the owners has a fucking mansion, with a two screen movie theater in his fucking home, its so ridiculously gigantic. In the basement there is a bowling alley too.

The res is basically a hotbed of criminal activity, but I have nothing against natives as they have always been good to me. One of my friends owns a small headshop on the res, so I spend a good deal of time just sittin in there when hes workin, smokin up. If people come in and burn some of their stash with us, we usually give them a discount on paraphenalia. Since its on the res, we have nothing to worry about... any police presence is pretty much non-existent. US Marshalls do have jurisdiction, but they only show up when someone gets shot/stabbed, or at the site of a car wreck.

Despite how fucked up it is, I love the res.

 

It's an island that was pretty inaccesible for a lot of generations, and still is to some degree. You have to fly in by float plan.

The incest is sad though.

 

i agree, spooner you really should seek help from professionals
what you're feeling probably isn't just boredom from the lack of things to do, i mean theres no end of things one can do on a reserve
what you are most likely feeling is a depressive state brought on my the lack of involvement your parents had in your life juxtaposing with the realization that you have nothing in this world but yourself
these suicidal feelings you have shouldn't be ignored, you should seek out your doctor for some form of medication right away
indications for anti-depressant medication include:
major depression with melancholia
severe panic attacks ( > 2 daily)
severe bulimia ( > 4 purges daily)
severe anxiety

and do remember that jesus loves you

 

There's also a flip-side to those reservations as well

The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (the tribe that welcomed the pilgrims) down in Massachusetts, is in the process of building a mega-resort casino in the town of middleborough. It should rival Foxwoods & Mohegan Sun in Connecticut and make them much Wampum



Hotwater

 

And if I was there, I'd be less bored and much broker.

This wasn't an anti-reserve thing, just an expression of how boring this particular one happens to be. Also, I don't like being a minority - I've almost been in 2 fights already.

 

I'm african american and I don't mind being a minority

Although at 6' 2' and with a good right hook, I usually win the majority of my fights.


Hotwater

 

Closely related groups of people isolated in an area with no police? Regardless of whether or not you won the fight, you're in for trouble later.

 

I was agreeing with you asshole

I appreciate that you are an asshole and that it is part of your charm

so fuck you, and have a nice fucking well informed day

 

Well I really hope you are a terrible shot and miss by a mile. Cheers!

 

Awww, did I upset da poor whittle baby wit a potty mouth.

Seriously mang, you shouldn't speak like that. It makes you sound like you've got Tourette's Syndrome, not AS.