![]() ![]() The Interior Department referred us to U.S. It is another thing to injure your friends.” And it is one thing to disappoint your adversaries. Because it is a wound and it is still very, very raw. Knowing them as I do, I believe fervently that they will seek to remedy this wound with their Native brothers and sisters. And I think they carry that burden in their soul. ![]() Because they know being Native themselves, that on this one, they failed. I believe that they will make a good faith attempt to remedy it. And I truly believe that Secretary Haaland and the assistant secretary, they know this. They've reaffirmed it in their own executive order. And both President Biden and Vice President Harris have affirmatively stated that in their own Biden-Harris tribal plan. The assertion is that the tribes were not adequately consulted around decisions regarding the wolf hunt, and that governments are legally bound to consult the tribes. And so the decision had already been made and we were like, I said, it was soul crushing." And so a decision had been made to to go forward with the same position as the previous administration while we were waiting to have that meeting. And I cannot tell you how disappointed, because we had already scheduled a meeting with the secretary on this issue. "Because that is state sanctioned extermination, what is occurring now. And the centrality of the death that that meant. That they would do the same things that the Trump administration did. But that was soul crushing for the Native people. And I say no person should be judged on one day in their life, or one decision in the landscape of their life. "Because whether it was Secretary Haaland, or even the president himself, these were our friends. And when the statement came out in mid-July on a Friday afternoon, that the current administration, the Biden administration, would adopt the position of the Trump administration, that was such a horrible blow to our soul. And promised under his own executive order. In his own executive order, issued on January the 26th of 2021, stated the need to listen to tribes, fully engage them. Because the president - and I am a huge supporter of the president. Because it was like being injured by a good friend. Tom Rodgers: “It was intensely personal to all the Native brothers and sisters of this country, the indigenous people of this country. ![]() On concerns tribal leaders have about the hunt of wolves in Wisconsin and other states ![]() What they forgot is that the DNA that his dogs experience is the same as the wolf of 35,000 years ago.” So we share the same sadly narrative that the wolf does, with the reference to the Big Bad Wolf raised by wolves. Or the Sand Creek massacre, or even the ultimate pandemic for native people in this country, where 90% of us were exterminated by smallpox, measles and flu. Or the Pine Ridge massacre of 300 women, and children and old men. Whether it be the ultimate marketing campaign of Manifest Destiny. is subject to the same mythmaking and massacres that Native people, indigenous people, have experienced. But we, as indigenous people, are like the wolf. So where our experience is life affirming, his experience is death. It is viewed, also, as critical to our afterlife. It is viewed as a sacred brother and sister to our people. Tom Rodgers: “The wolf is central to our creation stories. On the significance the gray wolf holds for indigenous tribes Also Featuredĭave Mabie, a wolf hunter from Wisconsin. Former wildlife biologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Member of the Blackfeet Tribe in Montana.Īdrian Wydeven, wildlife biologist at Wisconsin’s Green Fire, a nonpartisan group. Tom Rodgers, acting president of the Global Indigenous Council. But Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has thus far refused. Today, On Point: Tribal members have asked to meet with America's first indigenous cabinet member about the wolves. "The heart of this issue is what is the solution when you have a tribal population, indigenous population that has this traditional ecological knowledge about the functional landscape? And what happens when that runs into the state's interest?" Gussie Lord, an attorney with EarthJustice, says. Now, tribes are leading efforts to stop the hunts. Since then, hundreds have been hunted and killed in states like Wisconsin, Idaho and Montana. The gray wolf was taken off the endangered species list last year. Fish & Wildlife via AP) This article is more than 1 year old. A lone gray wolf may be roaming the Grand Canyon for the first time in 70 years. ![]()
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