ORIGINAL: gzg38b
ORIGINAL: Vabowman
gzg38b, yes most Native Americans are protected from game laws on reservations. It's the least we can do. After all, Europeans took what did not belong to them and told the Natives where, how, andwhen they could live their lives after 25,000 years, doing it the way they knew. Im not against game laws, but it seems that the Natives were doing it right long before there were laws, think about it, deer and many other animals almost became extinct at one point, because of... you guessed it... Europeans/settlers.
On reservations, fine. But it's not just on the reservations. It's on public land and waters too. That's the part I don't get.
It's because they retained the rights to hunt and fish however they wanted on lands purchased from them by the US Govt. It was a legal contract, therefore the government has tohonor it.