One of the points that needs to be highlighted about the aboriginal culture is the distinctive creativity of the aboriginal people in North America. Their life style that might be looked at as  basic or primitive is not so at all. The resistance to keep it so on the aboriginal people’s side is ascribed to the fact that they respect their culture and they feel that boosting it doesn’t affect their interaction with the changes around them. What the aboriginal did in the past as part of their life was advanced for that time, culturally speaking.

Here is a good a youtube clip that highlights a great Indian tradition which is the necessity to adapt.

Also there is an article by Jean Barman about the education given to aboriginal people neglected how creative these people. It did not pay attention to this essential side in them. The article is :

“Enabling the autumn seed: Toward a decolonized approach to Aboriginal knowledge, language, and education”.

 It appeared in Schooling in Transition: Reading in Canadian History of Education, which can be accessed from the following link:

http://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=apjYaExaI-QC&oi=fnd&pg=PA276&dq=creativity+of+aboriginal+people+in+canada&ots=Afey6E5f9t&sig=1FdXNTJbat8Hxfnx56MLIuq7uNE#v=onepage&q=creativity%20of%20aboriginal%20people%20in%20canada&f=false

Hussain