"Using modern tools does not negate a culture or tradition. "

I'm just also going to step in. When you change what tools you use, you change what you can harvest. When the white people advanced from subsistence to agriculture, then while using all the knew technology drove many species to extinction. History repeats itself as well, with alarming consistency. If Alaskan Natives change what they use to subsistence hunt, then they will get the ability to drive spcies to extinction. I don't know about you, but I'd prefer that that didn't happen.