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Quebec Innu Kill 250 Protected Caribou in Labrador
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March 02, 2010
Quebec Innu Kill 250 Protected Caribou in Labrador
By Online Editors
From the CBC's web site:
Chiefs representing Innu communities in northeastern Quebec are defending the actions of hunters who killed animals near a protected caribou herd in Labrador last week.
Quebec hunters say the slaughter was to protest their exclusion from a deal that will compensate Labrador Innu for the proposed Lower Churchill hydroelectric megaproject.
In all, 250 caribou were killed and will be used for food supplies for the communities, the chiefs said in a statement released Monday.
Read the full story here.
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Comments (12)
Its a shame things are so strained up there (between the government and the Inuus that this is what they had to resort to. Its good that the meat and hides wont be wasted but at the same time if some of those animals belonged to the Red Wine Herd its a shame that they had to be used as a political statement. Obviously both sides need to sit down and have a very serious talk about the rights/laws/beliefs of both sides and a middle ground needs to be reached.
Those Natives are getting away with a lot... I'll bet a bunch of non-native hunters couldn't harvest 250 caribou illegally "in protest", and get to keep the meat and hides with no legal repercussions. I say lock em up and deny future hunting privileges. They obviously don't value the land and wildlife the way they claim to if they use it as a political tool. This is disgraceful to every hunter who obeys the laws!
Those SAVAGES ...the wholesale slaughter of a herd that numbers in the hundreds ,not the thousands may have taught them to respect their elders or to blindly follow them,but I don't see that it would have taught much else.The protest was just a fabricated excuse to hunt where not allowed and the large numbers of hunters and kill was to ensure that they get away with it.
Now I've never had caribou and my ancestors used to rob and pillage before there were boundries.So Maybe I could exercise some ancestral rite.
Sounds like a bad way to make a political statement. The chief in the article said their intention was not to harm the Innu nation. He should have thought about that before he slaughtered 200 caribou!! They are protected so they will always be there to utilize, not to exclude his group from using them. Their actions haven't helped their cause one bit. The "compensation for the megaproject" shows that their intentions are at least slightly monetary in nature. Sickening!!
It is unfortunate that they had to kill 250 caribou, but I can see their point of view. There are not to many places were native people live close to the way of there anscestors, and when modern ways of life effect there way of life there will be uprisings. Just look at our history. I agree with VAhunter, and I hope they can find a middle ground.
I don't support the killing of the caribou, but I understand were they are comming from.
I won't go so far as to wholeheartedly support the protest, but I will weigh in to support the rights of the Innu. Their ancestors were hunting caribou long before the first white face appeared in North America. We never really had any legal right or justification to take the land from the various indiginous tribes that inhabited this continent, but our ancestors took the land and resources from theirs. We can't reverse the wrong, nor would I presume to visit the sins of our forefathers on us, but our governments (U.S. & Canada) have a responsibility to recognize the rights of native North Americans.
Well you have to understand that the hydro project is designed to sell power to the US. Vermont is closing its Vermont Yankee Nuke Plant which supplies 80% of Vermont's power. So flooding a few thousand acres of Quebec so that we can power up our ski lifts is perfectly sensible. Those caribou were going to need snorkels to exist in that part of the world anyway. Natives get involved with some horrendous kills all over the North. Anybody from any race can get caught up in some horrible situations.
Well thay made a statement. Hopefully they can come to some sort of middle ground, the sad part is after it is all said and done the 250 caribou will be eaten but the herd will be what suffers for the long term. Hopefully there numbers will rebound.
The Tribes were in the wrong.. They could have protested in a different manner and gotten the attention they wanted.
The tribe maybe utilizing 100% of the animals but they slaughtered them for greed and a cause that had nothing to do with hunting or their beliefs just the lining of their pockets over a hydroelectric mega project deal.
I gotta go with seadog, it aint 100% right to kill 200+ critters just to get a say, but, it shouldn't have taken that killing to be heard either. It was a huge injustice to the native tribes when the white man hit the shores of N.A. and began stealing land in the name of other nations thousands of miles away
What part of this statement did you not get whoever minused me:
Quebec hunters say the slaughter was to protest their exclusion from a deal that will compensate Labrador Innu for the proposed Lower Churchill hydroelectric megaproject.
Therefore it had nothing to do with migratory hunts, or the animals or their tright as Natives to continue their heritage it was about lining their pocket
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It is unfortunate that they had to kill 250 caribou, but I can see their point of view. There are not to many places were native people live close to the way of there anscestors, and when modern ways of life effect there way of life there will be uprisings. Just look at our history. I agree with VAhunter, and I hope they can find a middle ground.
I won't go so far as to wholeheartedly support the protest, but I will weigh in to support the rights of the Innu. Their ancestors were hunting caribou long before the first white face appeared in North America. We never really had any legal right or justification to take the land from the various indiginous tribes that inhabited this continent, but our ancestors took the land and resources from theirs. We can't reverse the wrong, nor would I presume to visit the sins of our forefathers on us, but our governments (U.S. & Canada) have a responsibility to recognize the rights of native North Americans.
I gotta go with seadog, it aint 100% right to kill 200+ critters just to get a say, but, it shouldn't have taken that killing to be heard either. It was a huge injustice to the native tribes when the white man hit the shores of N.A. and began stealing land in the name of other nations thousands of miles away
Its a shame things are so strained up there (between the government and the Inuus that this is what they had to resort to. Its good that the meat and hides wont be wasted but at the same time if some of those animals belonged to the Red Wine Herd its a shame that they had to be used as a political statement. Obviously both sides need to sit down and have a very serious talk about the rights/laws/beliefs of both sides and a middle ground needs to be reached.
I don't support the killing of the caribou, but I understand were they are comming from.
Well thay made a statement. Hopefully they can come to some sort of middle ground, the sad part is after it is all said and done the 250 caribou will be eaten but the herd will be what suffers for the long term. Hopefully there numbers will rebound.
What part of this statement did you not get whoever minused me:
Quebec hunters say the slaughter was to protest their exclusion from a deal that will compensate Labrador Innu for the proposed Lower Churchill hydroelectric megaproject.
Therefore it had nothing to do with migratory hunts, or the animals or their tright as Natives to continue their heritage it was about lining their pocket
Sounds like a bad way to make a political statement. The chief in the article said their intention was not to harm the Innu nation. He should have thought about that before he slaughtered 200 caribou!! They are protected so they will always be there to utilize, not to exclude his group from using them. Their actions haven't helped their cause one bit. The "compensation for the megaproject" shows that their intentions are at least slightly monetary in nature. Sickening!!
Well you have to understand that the hydro project is designed to sell power to the US. Vermont is closing its Vermont Yankee Nuke Plant which supplies 80% of Vermont's power. So flooding a few thousand acres of Quebec so that we can power up our ski lifts is perfectly sensible. Those caribou were going to need snorkels to exist in that part of the world anyway. Natives get involved with some horrendous kills all over the North. Anybody from any race can get caught up in some horrible situations.
Those Natives are getting away with a lot... I'll bet a bunch of non-native hunters couldn't harvest 250 caribou illegally "in protest", and get to keep the meat and hides with no legal repercussions. I say lock em up and deny future hunting privileges. They obviously don't value the land and wildlife the way they claim to if they use it as a political tool. This is disgraceful to every hunter who obeys the laws!
The Tribes were in the wrong.. They could have protested in a different manner and gotten the attention they wanted.
The tribe maybe utilizing 100% of the animals but they slaughtered them for greed and a cause that had nothing to do with hunting or their beliefs just the lining of their pockets over a hydroelectric mega project deal.
Those SAVAGES ...the wholesale slaughter of a herd that numbers in the hundreds ,not the thousands may have taught them to respect their elders or to blindly follow them,but I don't see that it would have taught much else.The protest was just a fabricated excuse to hunt where not allowed and the large numbers of hunters and kill was to ensure that they get away with it.
Now I've never had caribou and my ancestors used to rob and pillage before there were boundries.So Maybe I could exercise some ancestral rite.
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