Heres what the treaty says.
ARTICLE 3.
And provided, That, if necessary for the public convenience, roads may be run through the said reservation; and on the other hand, the right of way, with free access from the same to the nearest public highway, is secured to them; as also the right, in common with citizens of the United States, to travel upon all public highways.
The exclusive right of taking fish in all the streams, where running through or bordering said reservation, is further secured to said confederated tribes and bands of Indians, as also the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places, in common with the citizens of the Territory, and of erecting temporary buildings for curing them; together with the privilege of hunting, gathering roots and berries, and pasturing their horses and cattle upon open and unclaimed land.
What we are trying to do is not change the treaty. This is what everyone has tried in the past. Our goals are to launch a Public Relations campaign against the tribes. We will use their unwillingness and inability to police their own members unethical hunting practises. Utilizing volunteers with video cameras we will video their hunting camps and get pictures of their poaching and their kills. Game camera's will help out alot as well. In any case we will launch a PR campaign against them and also get a petition so that we can get on the 2010 state wide ballot in order to enact new laws that prohibit the unrestricted havesting of big game animals by the tribe. With all the bad PR they will get this bill is bound to pass. We already have a website we just don't know what to call it. We need everyones help in getting some pics of poached animals or video anything we can put on our website. We plan on having meetings within two months.
We are not talking about taking away the right to hunt from the Native Tribes. OUr new law would require them while hunting off their reservation to abide by the same rules and regulations that we must abide by. They would be given free licenses and could have their own special permits drawings. This would be just like their program that allows them to hunt sheep. They still get to hunt but they just wont be allowed to continue to decimate our big game herds.
We are also looking at helping to close off the roads that are already closed. I am not interested at this time about closing more roads just putting physical barriers in front of the ones that are already closed. This would go along ways in preventing poaching.
