FORT WASHAKIE — A Wyoming tribe said Monday that it is planning to start allowing its citizens to hunt off-reservation, months after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling affirmed a different tribe’s treaty right to hunt outside of its reservation.
Pointing to rights guaranteed in an 1868 treaty, leaders of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe told the state Legislature’s Select Committee on Tribal Relations on Monday that the tribe was in the process of drafting rules to regulate hunting in Wyoming by tribal members outside of the Wind River Reservation.
While the tribe is still drafting its regulations and other details – such as when the hunts would…
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Exposing the Big Game 
What I worry about is how will they coordinate their hunting with the non-indigenous hunters’ quotas and F&W – will those hunters insist upon their numbers, and all of it detrimental to the deer and elk numbers? And then naturally blaming wolves for daring to hunt their share will follow.
It’s a mess, and everyone should realize that we do not live in the same world anymore, thanks to greedy and superstitious colonists. So whatever anyone feels they have a ‘right’ to is not the same as it was in times past.
What I worry about are the deer, elk and wolves.