Perhaps this should have been a separate topic altogether. This issue isn't about our obligations towards existing treaties, but how those century old treaties affect the present day environment. At the present time, its the white man (for lack of a better term?) who manages wildlife and fisheries populations. When treaties were first signed, wildlife management wasn't a concern during a time of limited access and low hunting pressure. Thats all changed. Most treaties allow indiscriminate taking of fish and wildlife at any time of the year. Seasons, quotas, licences are all ways to manage and monitor populations today. When you allow the unlimited harvest of a species by a group, when spawning or breeding times are taken advantage of or compromised, when an animal is taken for its tongue only, or geese or ducks for their down then that population is put in peril. The issue is one of not only equality but responsibility as well and I don't believe thats being shown.