Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Fighting for Rights

The hunting rights issue had its beginnings in 1960 when state Representative John Nusunginya was arrested for shooting ducks outside of a hunting season established by an international migratory birds treaty. Two days after he was arrested, 138 other men shot ducks and presented themselves to federal games wardens for arrest. By 1961 the charges against all of them had been dropped, but all Natives were warned that future violations would result in arrest in prosecution. This was a very inspirational quote that i think was a very smart and strong. Back then I guess it was hard going for their own rights. In my village of Shungnak Alaska by Kotzebue my family and many other people up north went geese hunting. So this event in the past really helped hunting rights today.

3 comments:

  1. Thats interesting to know. I think that if that never happened then we wouldn't have much hunting rights today. And that would suck because you need moose soup for a potluck/potlatch so you can feed everyone that goes to the potluck/potlatch.

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  2. Yeah, I was reading about that, but what I was reading never said how that effected hunting rights. I think it's a pretty cool way to stand up for a culture and rights though. So I am wondering how that actual helped changed the hunting rights to the way they are now, if anyone could help me with that, that'd be cool.

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  3. I think that was a great way to show unity and it did help Alaska Native rights. If that didn't occur, we would have a lot more issues on subsistence to deal with or it would have taken a lot longer for the issues to be resolved. Without this bold attempt, for years Alaska Natives would have been denied traditional subsistence rights.

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