Native Americans Slaughter the Bison outside of Yellowstone
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Each year, several tribes descend on the Yellowstone area to exercise their treaty rights by killing bison that have left the park in search of food. The official term for this event is "The Bison Hunt." Only, it is no hunt at all.
Bison, hungry from a hard winter that brought early snow and freezing, travel just feet beyond safety and the park boundary. The animals are quietly grazing as they continue further outside of the park, not particularly bothered by the men and women who have gathered around with their rifles, some wearing camouflage while others wear an orange vest. Bison are around park visitors that have never hurt them, other than getting in their way or something, and so they don't know that these people are carrying lethal weapons with deadly intent, instead of cameras with long lenses. The bison graze away and some even do a little play fighting right in front of the crowd.
And, then the shooting starts and the bison are confused. Some run, some stand still and others fall to the ground. Some bison are injured and struggling to stand, flopping their massive bodies back and forth. The shooting is never-ending, a crowd of men and women just shooting into a crowd, with no selection whatsoever. They just start shooting and will take whatever finds a bullet. The natives had waited for several bison to cross the imaginary line, beyond the orange painted posts, so that they could just shoot into a crowd - this mentality has no skill or marksmanship as the bullets are bound to hit an animal.
Pregnant mothers, ready to birth in two months, nine and ten month old calves and bulls up to about 5 years of age, are falling. Some are flailing on the ground as a native watches. One injured youngster, struggling to stand, is shot point blank, its misery ending.
The bison flee, heading back into Yellowstone National Park where park rangers much find the injured and put them out of their misery. A calf, shot through the ankle, limps on three legs and its young, first time mother does all she can to keep her baby moving towards safety. When the man with a rifle enters the field, that young mother run as fast as I've ever seen a bison run, with that three legged baby following behind. They intend to survive. But, the baby is shot, its body hauled to a carcass dump and the next morning, the mother is still standing where her child dropped dead. Several orphaned calves risk bullets to return to the shooting area and find their moms. The natives are ready, they want to shoot those calves.
I don't think it is fair for you to impose your morality on how these indigenous people choose to harvest bison, a species which they have developed a cultural relationship with over thousands of years. Haven't Native Americans suffered enough dispossession, displacement, genocide, and cultural erasure at the hands of Euro-Americans to warrant their being allowed to hunt their allocated portion of the bison cull in the manor they see fit? The herd is stable, and if anything has exceeded the estimated sustainable carrying capacity of the park, so it's not a matter of population health, just animal ethics.
Even if you don't buy their right to autonomous ethical determination on this issue, given that the harvesting of these bison generally involves far less suffering than is seen in a typical American-style factory farm, I feel that any non-indigenous American concerned about animal welfare should seek to get their own culture's house in order before they can presume to dictate animal ethics to others.
The girl filming this is crying while eating her Quarter Pounder with cheese…
This a Native Land, this is our traditional way.
Everything gets used, quit you’re crying. 😆 so soft. It’s our native right to hunt them.
Never apologize. Your kind was there thousands of years before foreigners took your country away. Live how you wish and never forget your culture, traditions and god given rights.
Only conquered people that got something for free.
Can't get mad about what you don't know. But myself being an indigenous man and a harvester for the clan. This is amazing to see. Many people getting together on a harvest, working together and spreading out across the clans. Where I'm from the youth are too inclined to live a non sqilxʷ lifestyle and are losing nqilxʷmintət. Yes there are people and families still clinging on and passing on their traditional teachings that their ancestors kept through residential schools, the 60s scoop and indian day schools. And with the context of the comments I've seen so far. Don't even bother saying "get over it." It wasn't a long time ago. It's so recent where my wife, whom is in her early 30s was in indian day school and her mother was in residential school whom is in her early 50s. And my mother was part of the 60s scoop. So it wasn't a long time ago its still effecting our people today.
So when things like this happens and a non indigenous person posts something to paint indigenous practices in a bad light. Meat doesn't come from a grocery store. And veggies don't just magically appear in the produce section. Sorry to burst your bubble. Indigenous people have been harvesting their food for time immemorial. And if you had the sense to actually do research into it. You would find that the European immigrants were the worst thing to happen to North America. One of the politicians in the 1800s said "a dead Buffalo is a dead Indian." Now that is terrible legislation to pass. Not just for indigenous people but for the bison that were some of the most numerous of the big game species in North America pre contact.
And now to the hunting part. I'm a seasoned harvester and have been since I was a youngster. When most kids were learning how to ride bikes and how to read. I was being taught how to tan hides and to process harvests. Roots, berries, fish, mushrooms and soo much more. One thing that even non indigenous people know that harvesting animals they are tough, I know that some animals have more will than others. Sometimes they take a few steps before they drop some take longer. And also it's hard to take shots at animals on the move. I still think they made good clean kills. Hunting guides all over the world tell their clients to shoot for just behind the front leg In the the chest. To hit the heart and lungs. And that's the best way to get a kill on a large animal. They bleed out and better quality meat. Even I shoot in the chest if I have to. I prefer upper neck but I make the split second decision based on a few factors. But mostly if I can get on them before the heart stops beating to bleed them out. Heart even on a brain shot will best for 4 to 5 mins after. So if can get in in under 3 mins to bleed it out that would be the best. Our diet consists of 95% wild game meat. And the other 5 percent is ranched bison meat. In my cultural upbringing we utilize all.of our harvest. Not just the antlers and back straps. I even boil the bones to make bone broth as a nutritional supplement for our clan.
Thank you for reading this. But don't be painting indigenous people in a bad color, if gonna throw shade, do your research first.
And again I'm sorry to burst your bubble that meat doesn't come from a grocery store and veggies don't just magically appear in the produce section.
Very little point in explaining anything to people like this, I think it’s great your able to rekindle your tradition and the herds are strong enough to keep you guys coming back in years to come. Not sure how the land works in this hunt area but don’t most tribes have their own dnr, and an invested interest in the herds survival ;). Nothing is going to waste even the stuff the government boys are culling is likely being used to study the health of the animals .
@nuzuk I'm positive there is some harvest protocols put in place. Not exactly sure what. I'm not from the nation in this video. I'm from more north than these fellas. But yes like every fn they have protocols put in place.
It doesn't help trying to explain anything to such people. City folks are too detached from reality, to be susceptible for the reality of life. I'ts not only about culture and tradition, it's about survival. That's something people whom never had it, can never understand.
@@nuzuk agree totally and well said especially wasting oxygen trying to explain to this 'reporter'
I think the lady who took this video, and obviously had no idea what was going on, should have just asked what the tribe was doing instead of making comments based on her own ignorance. I'm not being mean, I just think she missed an opportunity to learn something helpful towards understanding different cultures. Instead, she calls this a slaughter.
Please, lady, try and learn something, and please, PLEASE, edit the title of this video.
Cry all you want it’s the way we hunt 🤣🤣
I don't call that hunting. Hunting is what you call going out and actually hunting for the animal. What you're doing is like killing fish in a fishbowl! And it DOES look like you all are just shooting into the herd hoping to hit something. Here in Maine, we aim to make a quick kill outright when we hunt, not shoot and HOPE to kill like you guys appear to be doing. If you're shooting for the food, at least do it humanely!!
@@sandyheal1065 Who made you the gatekeeper of the word "hunting"?
I thought it was a poorly produced hunting video…..then it turned into a poorly produced comedy.
Some children are easily amused.
@@debydixon7553 And some Karens are easily offended. You knew what was going on out there and it pisses you off. So you went to watch it and film it. Why? For clicks on RUclips? Get a life lady, it is their right. Get over yourself, you're not that important.
These people are the reason these animals are still here. This is wayyyyyy better than what it could be flint spears was the way. These people use all of the meat! I’d much rather die to a person with a rifle that could bring down a elephant than a wolf eating me while I’m still alive or starving or freezing to death.
New video title: Karen upset native Americans using land that was stolen from them to hunt and provide for their tribe
That's apart of the great circle of life. And the natives show Great respect for the animals. Better than getting hit by a car and dying on the side of the highway and no one using the animal
I am glad the natives can still enjoy their age old traditions. That meat must taste amazing and be much more healthy than store bought beef.
Plenty of meat to go around for them .
Madam, Plains Indians have been hunting buffalo for millenia, and the buffalo has been sacred to them. You should always remember that it was white hunters who drove the buffalo near extinction in the late 19th century, not American Indians.
They sure as hell haven’t been hunting them with guns for millennia!
So greedy we are and it's not even our land
People gotta eat
No issues with people eating but this takes place right outside of Yellowstone when animals we have come to know are seeking food for their own survival and are gunned down by people shooting wildly into the crowd. No aim, no selection and definitely not good marksmanship, isn't sport. Also, they are using lead bullets and leaving the gut piles behind for the carnivores that will likely die from lead poisoning because there is just so much food left for them.
This is America they can go to the local market and purchase a whole stake
@@debydixon7553 I understand getting attached to seeing wild animals but I have also seen what happens when these animals are taken down by a wolf or a bear. Nature is a brutal thing and unfortunately we are a part of it. Hunts that take place just outside of the park seem very unsporting. However, one reason for this is that these bison no longer fear people due to how they are treated in Yellowstone.
Any animal habitat has what biologists call a "carrying capacity" for a given species. The fact that deer, elk and bison populations were getting out of control in Yellowstone was a key reason/justification for reintroducing wolves into the park. Even with the additional predators the bison herds would get out of control without human intervention. In the past those interventions have included transporting the bison from the park to other states. However, it also once included systematic culling by the park rangers themselves. Neither of those options are considered viable now days (particularly the latter). Keep in mind also that relocation, when it does happen, is usually the result of state wildlife programs used to raise herds to be hunted. Basically the herds are now managed through state hunting programs that result in people waiting for the animals to cross into an area where it is legal to shoot them. Personally, this is not much different in my mind from what many hunters have to do when it comes to waiting for an animal to cross from private land to an area they are allowed to hunt them.
Why are you boo hoo in so loud. It's a way of life and tradition.
I mean all I can say is people use to do alot of things back in the day, doesn’t mean we still should. Isn’t there a better way?
Absolutely horrible. I know your pain.😭😭
Soft
Thats not cool
This is just awful I can’t even watch! 😩😭 is it legal to do that? I don’t understand 😮
Iam black, White & indigenous When They do this, it’s with prayer and it’s with ceremony and a respect and responsibility that weighs heavy on us because we take a life,”. “It’s not a sporting event.” We as indigenous rely heavily on bison for our survival & well being using every part of the bison for food, clothing, shelter, tools, jewelry and in ceremonies. A lot of indigenous people don't even have food, running water on or electricity on reservation. So My People hunt just like the did back in the old days before your people colonizers the white people came and stole our land from us ...My people kill a 🦬 "it's s not a sporting" When my people do this, it’s with prayer and it’s with ceremony and a respect and responsibility that weighs heavy on us because we taken an animal's life,” P.S. I never killed an animal ever but I do understand why my people are doing it & I respect that!
Tribal members are exercising treaty rights. And these are not trophy hunts. These animals will be fully utilized.
That’s good to know and understand! Thank you for explaining. I don’t like any kind of sport hunting!
@@jeannegeiger4750 Your welcome
If you shoot it you need to eat it and use every part of the bison You can not just food but blankets and clothing from it's hide if you're just shooting and not eating them then you where rasied wrong a true Native is like the wolves kills for food so I don't condone these actions that's not the old way it's not truly native American