Canada banned Innu hunting while tolerating pilots killing caribou for antlers

Evidence

It started with hunting. In the early 1970s, the Canadian government decided that the caribou of the Mealy Mountains needed a rest from hunting, and consequently the government banned Innu hunting in their traditional area for, they said, a few years. While American pilots stationed at the base had been known to make low passes over caribou to decapitate them for their antlers, it was deemed that the Innu shouldn’t hunt from the same herd. As the few years dragged on to 15, it became apparent to the Innu that Canada’s laws didn’t apply to all. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 321

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial conquest of hunters stems from shared peasant assumptions alien to hunting societies — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 277; Innu defended hunting as the core of their identity and language — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 323; The judge ruled Canadian title to Innu land rested on a 17th-century fiction — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 315