Subject: Re: Hunting, Was: The Dreaded Cat Thread - large pinch of salt , required before reading
Date: Apr 20 10:45:03 1995
From: Eugene Hunn - hunn at u.washington.edu


Don et al.,

The Quinault tribal lands were butchered by the BIA which had the legal
responsibility in trust to make the key decisions about how tribal
resources were to be used. The tribe is now suing the BIA for having
destroyed their tribal forest resource base. I don't know all the
details but there's more than meets the eye. By contrast the Yakama are
widely regarded as eminently conservative in their forest management
practice. They exert far firmer control over their BIA contingent that
the Quinaults apparently were able to.

Gene Hunn.

On Thu, 20 Apr 1995, Don Baccus wrote:

> > On Thu, 20 Apr 1995, Stuart MacKay wrote:
> >
> > >I think there is a lot to be said for tribal peoples (American Indians
> > spring to mind) , respect for the animals hunted. Not much evidence for
> > that in red-blooded white males :-))
> >
> > Jon. Anderson:
> >
> > Stuart -
> >
> > A minor flame:
> >
> > Pretending that the Native American community is more environmentally
> > correct than us 'white red-blooded males' is condescending and is a form
> > of racism in its own right.
>
> Anyone who doubts this should visit Quinault tribal forest lands and
> checkout the scale of harvest...
>
> Native Americans are like the rest of us: some have a spiritual
> relationship with the earth and wild inhabitants, some with the
> dollar.
>
> -Don Baccus-
>
>
>