In a recent case in the Hinton court, Judge Norheim ruled against a Metis squirrel poacher, stating that the mere fact of possession of a Metis card was not sufficient to grant all the rights stipulated in the Powley agreement. The rights would only apply if the Metis passed the Powley test of living in a Metis community, having direct links to ancestral...etc (I quit here in case I quote things incorrectly; y'all know what I mean; there should be REAL subsistence and cultural reasons for killing animals out of season).

Big decision in a small case... once the judge has issued the written verdict this will be in the media.

Frans

Excellent News, I see no reason for Metis to have special hunting rights. After all we are talking about game management and they have proven that there they don't care about management when it comes to the Cadomin sheep disaster.

A while ago I saw on the internet where some native people were trying to keep some anthropologists from digging up and doing DNA testing on remains on their reserve.

The gist of the story was that the anthropologist thought the remains were polynesian and not of the same race as North American Indians.

The idea being that if people other than American indians were in North America first, first nations would suddenly become second nations which apparently has great legal implications.


VBR,



Ted Gorsline

Remains have been found of 'caucasion' men in the Tri cities area of Washington State.

These have been Carbon Dated to be older than 'Indian' remains found.

'caucasion' not to be confused with European.

A sincere vote of thanks and appreciation has to go out to Judge Norheim for his courage and intelligence in the face of political pressure. Surely the shear common sense of opposing the racism inherent in the IMHA is obvious.May this precident give other magistrates the strength to oppose the Klein governments arrogance.

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Originally posted by Mickey1:
Remains have been found of 'caucasion' men in the Tri cities area of Washington State.

These have been Carbon Dated to be older than 'Indian' remains found.

'caucasion' not to be confused with European.

I think you're referring to what is being called "Kenniwick Man". There was some news out a week or two ago that, as Ted Gorsline suggests in his post, reported that scientists now believe that Kennewick Man's ancestry was probably not Caucasian, but closer to that of the Polynesian (or perhaps the Ainu).

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/05/time.first.americans/index.html

The Ainu are caucasian.

Caucasian or Caucasoid just means west of the Caucaus mountains in Russia.

Any human on earth that is not a Capoid (bushmen), Australoid, Negroid or Mongloid is a Caucasoid.

There is a sub-group of the Cacausoids called the Extra-European Cacausoids. This would include Arabs, Persians, Berbers, and North (non-Negroid) Africans.

Caucasoid subraces.

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Originally posted by Canuck32:
Excellent News, I see no reason for Metis to have special hunting rights. After all we are talking about game management and they have proven that there they don't care about management when it comes to the Cadomin sheep disaster.

My reading of this is that the judge finds only a 'real' Metis can hunt out of season under the terms of the agreement.

That being the case, any Metis living on reserve still has the right in law to kill out of season - 'for subsistence.'

At the risk of spawning a major debate - it seems to me that this right should only be on the basis it was originally granted.

You should have to use traditional transport, equipment and weapons in your 'harvest'.

After all - it is a 'traditional' right to hunt!! So get out in a buckskin, with a recurve bow - and carry out your moose on your back.

I fancy that this would be sufficient to ensure that game management concerns would not be affected by 'first (?) nations' rights!

Rgds Ian