If you look into the eyes of most middle aged to elderly Inuit You will see love and wisdom. I really hate to generalize but a common similar experience with Innu you frequently see bewilderment along with a strong smell of alcohol. So sad, these are my people.
Tradition 'snatched away': Labrador Inuit struggle with caribou hunting ban
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Allan's conscience would bother him forever. He is Inuit, far from typical. They have had physical altercations with Innu on this very subject. The Quebec reinforcements have them scared. RCMP actually side with Quebec.
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Hey Solar guy, I know the story.
I had to do a orientation each of the four times , I worked on the Muskrat falls dam.
The orientation was on the history of the Innu, how to interact with them , etc.
The guy giving the orientation,was the high school principal,in Sheshashiu
Married to Peter pennashue daughter.
It was a sad history, bring tears to your eyes for sure.
I meant no disrespect from my previous comment,as I have made a couple of good friendships,with a couple of the Innu guys.
It seems the problem is the younger guys.
Get drunk and no respect .
But they have their issues as well.
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Peter is not such a bad guy. Has had to deal with his own demons. He has beat booze a few times, he is actually the guy who told me about the tradition continuing about the elders asking for the unborn calves. When we were loading a plane one timeA doe slid out of the Otter and the calf that was just laid in her body cavity ended up on the ice. I said Pete, I thought that ended years ago. His response "they keep asking for it'" It was a harmless tradition in the old days when there was so much, they shot alot more stags then.Politics was Peters downfall.
Some of them go to Vegas regularly.
If i recall wasn't it something like a quarter of a million drown at that attempted crossing . I remember it and the pics but the number killed i'm not sure of but it was huge .
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They don't know. Nobody really seems to have a solid explanation why all the caribou herds in North America are in decline. They state a number of possible reasons, but any article or report I've read sounds like a guess at best. Predators,hunters,climate change,habitat destruction,etc.
Maybe it's all these things hitting them at once.
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I may be wrong but i had heard that caribou are quite sensitive to the presence of man, moreso than deer, moose etc.
Could it be that with snowmobiles, atvs, bush planes, trucks on roads in breeding areas that they are stressed and breeding less/ more fawn mortality?
Again, this is just something i heard.
Could it be that with snowmobiles, atvs, bush planes, trucks on roads in breeding areas that they are stressed and breeding less/ more fawn mortality?
Again, this is just something i heard.
Now we can see why the Caribou went from 800 thousand to 9000 in such a short time. it wasn't greed I. they weren't thinking properly. shot 5 and took the best 3 eh ? now that guy needs a slap for doing that . what a waste. hence the term you don't know what you had till you've lost it . and some never will . you have to wake up first.
No doubt, over hunting may have played a part in it, but there’s got to be more to it than that.
The disappearance of 800000 + caribou, in such a short period is impressive.
Almost like a mass wipeout.
On a side note, I’m from the west coast of NL and three caribou have taken up residence behind my house.
I’ve been there for 15 years and it’s the first time caribou has ever been seen in the area.
The disappearance of 800000 + caribou, in such a short period is impressive.
Almost like a mass wipeout.
On a side note, I’m from the west coast of NL and three caribou have taken up residence behind my house.
I’ve been there for 15 years and it’s the first time caribou has ever been seen in the area.
I can't really comment on the actual number, as the NL chief wildlife biologist at the time wouldn't hazard a guess. There were carcasses in the woods-everywhere, besides the lower flood plane. The brain worm epidemic is one of the main reasons for decline on the island portion of the province. Sir Wilfred Grenfell once brought Reindeer to NL thinking to introduce them as working animals for his missions, but they were infected with brain worm and spread it to the wild caribou population. It has a cycle where the larvae is inhaled from the barrens in dung and hatches in the brain.( I may not have that cycle correct) they become weak and die. Warmer average temps have done a double whammy, as more and healthier larvae survive the island winters. Coyote introduction meant the calving grounds are really under attack by lynx, and black bear as well. One of my good buddies, retired from wildlife, claims caribou are and always were a cyclic herbivore, but with the added influence of natural disasters, the fluxuations are greater. I better quit before this becomes a novel! lol
The area around my hometown, Buchans, Millertown, Gaff Topsails has seen a significant comeback as well. Shortage of their main fodder, caribou moss or lichen is also a factor in population drops.
Yes , there’s still a few around those areas , but I’m over on the Bay of Islands, I’ve never seen nor heard of caribou around here.
Until last year, when 3 came walking out of the bush, behind my house
I live on a secluded dirt rd . I got to come out to hunt ..Lol
