I agree completely with you about the right of Native peoples to adapt to new ways of doing things--we allow nearly every other culture to adapt without claiming that it negates the culture. One of the underlying features of culture is that it adapts.
I also wanted to note that someone will complain regardless of the way the whaling is carried out: if it is done traditionally (harpooning), animal rights activists complain about the inhumanity. If they use an elephant gun, there are complaints about deviation from tradition (which of course Native Americans can't do). There never seems to be a time when everyone can compromise on the matter.
--Kathryn Ritchie
(I couldn't get the site to allow me to attach this comment directly to your post, sorry)
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