Indians don't have to stay on the reserve they could into the cities. but would have to abandon a culture thousands of years old for modern life. In the white man's world, nature is destroyed in the name of economic . Integration seldom acknowledges the Aboriginal way of . Aboriginals are a minority. The Indians were the original inhabitants and they opened the to white man. Today, they must conform or suffer the Aboriginals are the lowest income group in Canada. They are seen as an anachronism. misfits. One third of them are on \"welfare". Infant is twice the national average. Life expectancy is 36 - one of the lowest in the world. There were over 100 trading posts in the North, where the company store was the only store. A monopoly could set prices high - double what items in the south. Lowest income earners paid the prices. The local post office. run by the HBC, blocked the mail, so natives must sign checks and are never allowed to take their money out. This led to debt. Aboriginals became credit dependent on the company and it becomes virtually impossible to perpetual debt. And they need for traps to hunt and food to eat. HBC was in complete economic control without any or responsibility to Aboriginals. Social problems were the responsibility of someone else. Hudson Bay was only a Aboriginals. today. are faced with new danger. as a result of exploitation pollution. HBC sold land to the government, but maintained rights. Ecological balance has been