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Originally Posted by 45-70sapper
I agree with what has been said before. The easiest, most simple fix is to destroy the trophy value of ANY animal taken under subsistence hunting. Spilt the skill plate, confiscate all of it, whatever, problem solved. Bulls may still be taken but at least it won't be solely as a trophy. And then if they want a chance to take an animal and keep the antlers etc., they have to fall in line with everyone else and wait their turn. This would be so easy to implement, and it would probably give a positive boost to the image of hunting in alberta. To the antis anyways.
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You think anti hunting advocates care who's doing the hunting?
Fact of the matter is treaties are not going away.... Ever. Fact is and will always be, you can have an opinion on the topic but it will never come to light. These threads usually come with opinions of people who don't understand that First Nation people have a right to hunt, they are not subsistence hunters, you keep mixing up First Nations hunters with people whom live out in the middle of nowhere and nowhere near a grocery store.
Who cares if it's about trophy or not? Why wouldn't First Nations people have a right to put the skills handed down to them over thousands of years to the test and honor the people who have handed them down through taking mature animals that are harder to get than a young one. The meat is better is a matter of opinion, First Nations people traditionally boil everything... I don't care if it's a day old or 20 years old meat tastes the exact same when it's cooked in this manner.
Suffield elk? It's a herd that was introduced to an area, it might as well be a farm that has no fences. The population is out of control, and who better than First Nations people to get it in check? That meat goes to family's that are still feeling the effects of over a hundred years of mistreatment. If you want to have First Nations people the same as all Canadians treat them as such, encourage your politicians to make sure they get equal opportunity as all Canadians and are no longer regulated. If you knew what happens behind the scenes of a reserve you would change your thought process. It's not easy trying to make something out of nothing.
The actual numbers of First Nations hunting in this country is greatly outweighed by the number of non.. If your worried about First Nations people killing all the animals in the country consider these 2 points,
1) remember the buffalo?
2) maybe the problem lies in ESRD and thier lack of ability to maintain funding to achieve proper numbers is the route of all evils in numbers going down? Maybe the energy sectors influence in politics may have something to do with numbers being drive down? Why is it that moose populations in areas like 349 are almost none compared to what it used to be? Is it because the spike in gas findings have gotten the province to drive down herd numbers for safety sake and to once again regulate the indian by driving up tag numbers? Once again starving the indian?
All I ask is that you learn the facts before posting an argument, don't be totally ignorant to what's actually happening in this great province of ours. And mostly share the sence of entitlement. First Nations have been sharing this great nation long before any of us were born.
Get over the greed