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need2hunt
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This post is in regards to another-popular-related post.
Do many of you really think poaching or disrespecting of game animals is more prominent on reservations VS. Off? Seems to me that the problem lies on both sides of the boundary. I am a native and do live on a reservation and there is a fair share of poaching/disrespecting game animals where I am from. But it seems like that it's always only the same handfull of people (15-20) who do it here, year in and year out. They either get caught or they don't and - yes - they only get a hand slapped for it here too, then their back to there same old ways again. I think the problem between SOME natives and non-natives is somewhere on the lines of hunting land access. Non-natives seem to get the notion that natives have "all that land" to hunt on to themselves. Well I can tell you that if a lot of other reservations are as mine is....hunting season can be a circus! Natives are wanting to hunt outside of the boundary because of the overcrowding and Non-natives are wanting to hunt on the reservations. I think this system works OK enough for now. If everyone was allowed to cross the border there would be fools shooting one another (cowboys & indians sort of thing). I guess i'm trying to say is that us indians are not that much different..."Can't we all just get along!"
Do many of you really think poaching or disrespecting of game animals is more prominent on reservations VS. Off? Seems to me that the problem lies on both sides of the boundary. I am a native and do live on a reservation and there is a fair share of poaching/disrespecting game animals where I am from. But it seems like that it's always only the same handfull of people (15-20) who do it here, year in and year out. They either get caught or they don't and - yes - they only get a hand slapped for it here too, then their back to there same old ways again. I think the problem between SOME natives and non-natives is somewhere on the lines of hunting land access. Non-natives seem to get the notion that natives have "all that land" to hunt on to themselves. Well I can tell you that if a lot of other reservations are as mine is....hunting season can be a circus! Natives are wanting to hunt outside of the boundary because of the overcrowding and Non-natives are wanting to hunt on the reservations. I think this system works OK enough for now. If everyone was allowed to cross the border there would be fools shooting one another (cowboys & indians sort of thing). I guess i'm trying to say is that us indians are not that much different..."Can't we all just get along!"