Technology and the Natives
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Technology is everywhere. Natives used it through out thier daily lives continously. Of course tis by no means deals with the same technology the more civilized white cultur were using. For instace, the father while searching for the bushmen who had taken his son in the movie watched in class, used a knife to cut through the trees. Natives had no knifes, but because the white man came to their land and soon took over, they were forced to learn about some much more advanced technology.
Before all this new technology, Natives lived a pleaseant life and their culture soon became forced to change...They lived in their own simple paradise, until new technology became available making them able to have more then they needed, taking away from their survival skills, thus exploiting their once freemind. For instance, in the case of the Bushman finding the coke bottle, they realized that their new piece of technology had many uses and made many jobs fast and easier to do. However,it was most likely theie tribe had ever gotten in any sort of a fight with each other...