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Posted by: hughjorgan« on: Today at 01:07:02 PM » Insert Quote Oh come on it is a fact that there weren't any horses in america until the Spaniards brought them to America. Also it is a fact that elk were a plains animal originally. Your ancestors probably did hunt but not much all the tribal history I have ever seen in the PNW has shown many pictures of Indians fishing. Do you even have evidence that there were elk in the yakima areathis is from the WDFW Yakima Elk HerdHistoric DistributionThe Yakima Elk Herd is a reintroduced herd resulting from an initial transplant of 50 RockyMountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) from Gardiner, Montana in January 1913 and anadditional 6 elk from Montana purchased from Manitou Park in Spokane, Washington in 1913.These animals were released on the Stevens Ranch on the Naches River (Pautzke et al.1939).They noted that, “There were no elk native to Yakima County at the time of these plantings, noris there definite evidence that elk ever occupied that area in recent times.” Based on recentarcheological records from the Columbia Basin the evidence suggests that elk were present andutilized by the early inhabitants (Dixon et al. 1996 and McCorquodale 1985). Elk were possiblyextirpated from the region by the late 1880's (McCorquodale 1985).
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/org_NWS/NWSci%20journal%20articles/1996%20files/Issue%203/v70%20p262%20Dixon%20and%20Lyman.PDFYou can read the study that I pulled the quotes from yourself Igotbigbulls and PlateauNDN...It is interesting to note that there is no data available in there chart for frequency of dated assemblages producing elk remains per county for Yakima or Kittitas Counties, thevery area that is so controversial about tribal elk harvest... is there no data because there was no elk, until some sportsman introduced them to these areas? Elk seem to be welldocumented in other counties in Eastern Washington by carbon dating and fossils.
the Yakamas don't need permits or permission for anybody to harvest elk since the rimrock unit is within our Ceded Area
Bet they didn't hunt out of pickup trucks with .300 ultra mags though... Wasnt rimrock the unit where the tribal killers were herding a bull with their truck last season? What ever came of that?