ok but if there are cultural practices lost between contact and the near term recent memory, this is unquantifiable. You could be right. You could be completel

ok but if there are cultural practices lost between contact and the near term recent memory, this is unquantifiable. You could be right. You could be completely wrong, and neither of us have any ability to know. What is measurable is what the Canadian government explicitly tried to eradicate in the last century.