In America, Indians have their own reservations but, for the most part the rest of the American population ignores them. I like how the New Zealand people, or Kiwis, value their heritage and the Native People affect everyone's daily lives, when people from other countries come to visit the U.S. they don't usually focus on the natives, I like that about New Zealand. When the Europeans came to the United States of America they only cared about themselves and ruined the Native Americans lives and homes. I feel like their attitudes have been passed down to today's generations, because most people still don't know or care about what the explorers did to the Native Americans. The Kiwi's have it right because they know about the Natives and they are proud to share the land with them. Not only do they know about it, they share the native culture with tourists, the living thermal village was one of the coolest things I've ever seen, and it IS the coolest thing we've seen on this trip so far. I like their way of life, they mostly only live off of the land (except when the government intervenes for safety reasons), and they are still civil people. More people should live like them, they are all one big family and, if for no other reason, they have minimal living costs. Our natives can't be as resourceful as them because they don't have as many hot springs, or their own land, but they do as much as they can.
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