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Originally Posted by flint
What you are missing is that the Metis want some hunting and fishing rights as the aboriginals have. To go where they please and hunt what they please without any interference from state, church, anti-hunting group or pro hunting group. Hunting is a bigger part of their heritage then white man. The Metis are originally half French and First Nation......therefore they deserve more hunting and fishing rights then the white man. If they want a trophy or a non trophy then that should be their right. If they want to travel from Medicine Hat to High Level and hunt, then that should be their right. We the white man took away their natural rights (the right to live, where they want and how they want-the right to hunt and fish) through white laws, warfare and forced onto reservations. It's time they fought back and rightly so. If you are so worried about your trophies then continue your "fish in a barrel hunt" in Africa on someone else's dime. The white man has had their way long enough. Study pre and post confederation history......you might learn something for a change Schwanky instead of thinking of me, me, me.
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Flint,
Your post brought a thought to mind.
During the early 1800's the Metis used to travel from Red River in what is now Manitoba all the way to the Rocky Mountains in what is now Alberta by horse and Red River cart to do their subsistance harvesting.
I wonder why people are so incredulous that a Metis would actually drive a few hundred miles to hunt in these times in the comfort of an air conditioned cart pulled by 350 horses.
I guess these people are not aware that the Metis used to take months to go hunting and gathering. So long that they had to winter over and could not even make it back to where they started from in one season.
Back to the T Shirt, "It Is An "Aboriginal Thing You Wouldn't Understand"
Thanks,
Rafter