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There are 10,851 members of the Yakima tribe (check google if you don't believe me). Lets say that 90% of them don't want to hunt and don't care about hunting. Now your down to approximately 1085 that hunt. Lets say conservatively that 75% of the hunters only hunt to sustain themselves for food for their families and only kill an average of two elk a year. So that is 813 tribal members killing two elk each so right there is approximately 1600 elk killed. The other 25% of the 10% so roughly 2.5% (272 tribal hunters) of the entire tribe are really hunting it hard for whatever they can get within the rules that are allowed to them. out of the 272 hunters left lets say that 172 of them are just bad hunters and can only come up with killing 5 elk in 180 days of hunting. That is another 860 elk killed. Lets say 100 of them are good hunters that hit it hard. I know that if I hunted the Yakima areas for 180 days and could use whatever weapon I chose and hunt the rut and so forth, that I easily could kill 100 elk in 180 days and most members on this forum could do the same. If I had a jerky business that depended on it I could probably kill more than that! That is 10,000 elk. 100 hunters is less than 1% of the tribe total. Starting to catch on? With the huge number of the tribe having only 25% native bloodline (that means that one of their four grandparents were native). I'm 75% English and 25% German. I don't recognize myself as being a German.Are the numbers and figures above correct? NO they are not. The only correct number above is the original number of 10,851 tribal members total. We will never know the totals because they have no reporting requirements and wont consider starting. But some of the figures above are on the conservative side I do believe. The total number of elk killed in the figures above is 12,460 per year. Do I believe that the tribe kills that many elk a year? NO! Do I believe uncontrolled tribal hunting in the Yakima area is the number one cause of elk depletion. ABSOLUTELY!!!! Wolves, Bears, Cougars, and non-native poaching aren't even a close second place!! The only other big contributing factor is weather issues with winter kill and poor calf production and survival but even that isn't close to the number one reason. Anyone else thinking otherwise needs to re-think their views in my opinion.
Quote from: dvolmer on September 18, 2019, 01:52:11 PMThere are 10,851 members of the Yakima tribe (check google if you don't believe me). Lets say that 90% of them don't want to hunt and don't care about hunting. Now your down to approximately 1085 that hunt. Lets say conservatively that 75% of the hunters only hunt to sustain themselves for food for their families and only kill an average of two elk a year. So that is 813 tribal members killing two elk each so right there is approximately 1600 elk killed. The other 25% of the 10% so roughly 2.5% (272 tribal hunters) of the entire tribe are really hunting it hard for whatever they can get within the rules that are allowed to them. out of the 272 hunters left lets say that 172 of them are just bad hunters and can only come up with killing 5 elk in 180 days of hunting. That is another 860 elk killed. Lets say 100 of them are good hunters that hit it hard. I know that if I hunted the Yakima areas for 180 days and could use whatever weapon I chose and hunt the rut and so forth, that I easily could kill 100 elk in 180 days and most members on this forum could do the same. If I had a jerky business that depended on it I could probably kill more than that! That is 10,000 elk. 100 hunters is less than 1% of the tribe total. Starting to catch on? With the huge number of the tribe having only 25% native bloodline (that means that one of their four grandparents were native). I'm 75% English and 25% German. I don't recognize myself as being a German.Are the numbers and figures above correct? NO they are not. The only correct number above is the original number of 10,851 tribal members total. We will never know the totals because they have no reporting requirements and wont consider starting. But some of the figures above are on the conservative side I do believe. The total number of elk killed in the figures above is 12,460 per year. Do I believe that the tribe kills that many elk a year? NO! Do I believe uncontrolled tribal hunting in the Yakima area is the number one cause of elk depletion. ABSOLUTELY!!!! Wolves, Bears, Cougars, and non-native poaching aren't even a close second place!! The only other big contributing factor is weather issues with winter kill and poor calf production and survival but even that isn't close to the number one reason. Anyone else thinking otherwise needs to re-think their views in my opinion.What about the muckleshoot tribe that is hunting the Yakima herd. They already have a track record of killing off a bunch of elk out 410, they’ve just moved a little farther east...
Having a German grandparent you could apply for German citizenship.
Must have been how the natives felt seeing all the Europeans unload off of boats claiming the land was now theirs.
Quote from: Platensek-po on September 18, 2019, 03:22:59 PMMust have been how the natives felt seeing all the Europeans unload off of boats claiming the land was now theirs.they took it from someone too, did they give the previous land dwellers treaties?
Somehow the natives were able to coexist and use those resources for 14thousand years or so.
Yeah they got a great treaty the men were offered to have their scalp cut off before they were murdered. And their wives got to be raped and kidnapped and become part of the attacking tribe. But yeah let’s just keep talking on how wrong we have done them. Oh wait I forget we didn’t do anything to them, our ancestors did something to their ancestors hundreds of years ago. Just like when they were committing the same acts. They owe those people nothing just as we should owe all of them nothing.
