Tribal Regs????

[alanger]

What kind of regs go up for tribal hunters and elk hunting say.. in the colockum or i guess anywhere. I was out with my cousin archery hunting today and a tribal hunter got a big 6x6 bull that we watched since day-light, he pulled up and let the hammer down. so it kind of just brought up some questions, like regulations and what they are limited to. The whole deal kind of bothered me since many of us hunters put in our  towards the WDFW and the hope of getting drawn and then a tribal hunter can just go shoot whatever??? without years of putting in for a trophy hunt?? and then just drop the elk like its a daily routine and not get pumped up. thanks- Langer

[iRem]

Yeah it makes you kind a of sick too know that they can pretty much do what ever they want and not be discipline in any matter or even lose their rights like we would if were to do something like that, isn't that called poaching? Too get our selves all jacked for a big hunt and than to see this unfold in front of your eyes makes me pretty sick. Let me know when I have an opportunity to go out and poach an elk to put food on my table for my family. Or even go out and harvest any animal for my pleasure with out lossing my rights!

[superdown]

do they have any whatsoever 

[billythekidrock]

9 month season with year round huntin'. Shootin' rifles from the rig during archery season. That is about all the regs.....I think.

[buckhorn2]

On T.V. it said they only take what they can eat. and eat and eat and eat and eat and eat. They make there own rules they are co-managers of the resource.

[Team Baze]

I'm not Native but have friends that are and I bet that about 90% of the people that sit on here and bitch about the Natives hunting rights would do the same thing that they do if you were born with brown skin. Just reading some of the posts on here about natives makes me think that we are back in the early 1900's and we live in the south.

[DOUBLELUNG]

Here's a link to the Yakama Nation regulations for tribal hunting: http://www.ynwildlife.org/tribalhunting.php.  The ceded area includes all publicly owned portions of the Yakima and Colockum elk herd ranges.

[ICEMAN]

I'm not Native but have friends that are and I bet that about 90% of the people that sit on here and bitch about the Natives hunting rights would do the same thing that they do if you were born with brown skin. Just reading some of the posts on here about natives makes me think that we are back in the early 1900's and we live in the south.

Give me a break. 

[boneaddict]

I just made this comment awhile ago to some of the admins that it was kinda ironic while I was up in the NE corner.  A bunch of whiteguys running around with bows and a bunch of indians were hunting with their rifles. LOL.    
To an extent Blaze, but interesting enough, we elect, pay for, or to to some extent lobby for what kind of regulation (length of seasons etc.  to manage the game herds.)  We could probably just let everyone hunt as much as possible and then soon not be hunting at all.  I do believe there should be more tribal regulation.    

[boneaddict]

after all we are supposedly equals now right.....

[bigtex]

Well first, how do you know they were tribal members?

Now to your question. Each tribe sets their own seasons and regulations. Some regulations are similar to WDFW regulations but most aren't. For example some tribes don't have a law against wastage (basically shooting and leaving an animal) whereas if a general citizen shot and left an elk they would be charged with wastage 1st degree and automatically lose their hunting and fishing rights for several years. As far as I know the Muckleshoots are the only tribe in the state that can use a crossbow, and I think this is their first year of allowing their members to do so. All it takes is for the tribes wildlife comittee or whatever they call it to approve it and it becomes law. They don't have to consult with WDFW.

[Nilehunter]

I'm not Native but have friends that are and I bet that about 90% of the people that sit on here and bitch about the Natives hunting rights would do the same thing that they do if you were born with brown skin. Just reading some of the posts on here about natives makes me think that we are back in the early 1900's and we live in the south.

    It's just frustration is all (has nothing to do with skin as you sugest).

[bigtex]

Here's a link to the Yakama Nation regulations for tribal hunting: http://www.ynwildlife.org/tribalhunting.php.  The ceded area includes all publicly owned portions of the Yakima and Colockum elk herd ranges.

Those are the regulations for non-tribal members who buy a permit to hunt the Yakima Rez. Most tribes do not post their regs online, some do but not the Yakimas or the Muckleshoots.

[buckhorn2]

Your reading to many novels or else not a john wayne fan Baze.

[runamuk]

Ok here goes my big mouth...sure some here might if they could and if i knew my actual heritage I might be indian enough somehwere to have extra rights...I am female enough to join the feminist wagon of deserving special treatment but dont want it I want to be equal not segregated.

The natives choose segregation by continuing to abuse and use special rights and continuing to want to be treated different and not equal the ones who want to be equal leave the rez in my experience and often do not go back.

so fire away I really do not care anymore I work for a tribe and see first hand how being allowed to discriminate works in modern society...on the rez I am not equal not even close....