Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat

Way back int he day I used to work as a swamper on a hydrovac truck. Our truck's territory was mostly situated in and around a northern alberta indian reservation. You could tell where the reservation boundaries started, because that's where the refrigerators and washing machines in the ditch start, and they continue down any road you follow until you leave the rez. Oh, and watch the fuck out for stray dogs and children, they are everywhere. They run out on the road like deer from the strangest places.

They don't drill water wells out there, they have giant freshwater tanks. Why? Because it is cheaper to truck them water for the lifespan of the house than it is to drill a well! The entire reservation looks like a post apocalyptic wasteland. Beautiful new houses, gutted, destroyed and left to weather.

I almost thought my driver was joking when he told me, then a while afterward I was rigging up to a tank just behind a yard on the rez mid afternoon. I see a school bus roll up on the road, and 4 little native kids come strolling off. At this point I usually stand around on the edge of the oil lease and smoke cigarettes for an hour or so trying not to fall asleep while the truck pumps, so I have a goof extended period to watch these kids. What do these little shits do?

They go into the backyard which was facing our worksite, so I can see everything they are doing. They start throwing rocks at the wall. Then they're beating it with sticks. Once they get some nice holes broke in the siding, they get their sticks underneath and start prying it up. Then they tag up on it and start ripping the fucking siding off the house. Brand new house getting just thrashed, and this is how 90% of the homes there look. It's fucking sickening.

Go hang out in Onion Lake, Hobema, Sunchild. Fucking ghhhhhhhetto. You better hope you don't run out of gas on the side of the road in the middle of the night. Your vehicle won't make morning without being a smashed heap of shit...

Obviously this isn't every reservation or every native person, but jesus fuck are there some bad ones. It reminds of way back I was sitting in a little northern oil town bar having some drinks and I'm talking with this old indian dude, real funny guy. He tells me this "You know, there's indians, and there's fucking indians, and there's a WHOOOOOOOLE LOT of fucking indians..." I just about shat myself laughing.