Yes those FN people are not following their traditional ways of harvesting game. Not using bone or stone knives and bows made from saskatoon branches and not herding animals off jumps to a slow death.
No one especially non FN are really into much traditional ways. Rifles, scopes and Lazer range finders and the ability to kill at ridiculous extreme range is not really traditional hunting.
Why is it that FN should not avail themselves of the best technology that non FN are entitled to use?
Trespassing without permission is not exactly an exclusive first nation thing. Reading these threads it seem that a lot of those that seem entitled to game no matter where they range is more of a non FN thing.
For the most part FN are allowed to hunt on reserves and crown land and private property where they have permission and are allowed to hunt most of the year. Other than that, FN do not have much else that would interest the average Canadian., Why would FN want to give up anything that they have a treaty right to without gaining something else in return?
There are many Canadians that have so much but still complain that they are not treated as equals with FN. The truth is that they only want to be equal with FN in their entitlements to game. Other than that non FN seem OK with FN non being equal and many want them to stay on the reserves.
I do not feel that my rights as a Canadian are infringed one bit by allowing FN to harvest according to their treaty rights and by way of any modern method they choose.
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