17 Replies to ““Dear Hunter””

  1. Now that Manitoba has new leadership its finally fulfilled its mission to become one large reserve. Hail to the Chief.

  2. If it’s acceptable to “self identify” as whatever you may need to be for your own sexuality, mental health, or age or perhaps you need to say / believe you are a ballerina when in fact you’re in real life one of the best baristas or ironworkers on the planet, then why not say you’re something useful, like to be a First Nations person in Canada?

    How difficult can it be?

  3. I sure hope they only use traditional indigenous Stone-age hunting tools to feed themselves. Otherwise that would be cultural appropriation and promotion of colonization and European values.

    1. I’ve always admired how the natives were able to build entire snowmobiles and 30-06 rifles out of bone, hide strips and reindeer sinew.

        1. And when those snowmobiles run out of fuel make the guvmint buy you a new snowmobile.

          (The things you learn when you read WP Kinsella’s “Fencepost Chronicles”)

      1. The best part of the native tradition is leaving whale carcasses on the shoreline to rot.

  4. Govt strategy, Indians vs ‘colonists’, english vs french vs everyone else, straight vs alphabet crowd and on and on

  5. Dear Hunters, White Hunters
    This is your swan-song
    Your guns have been seized
    And the ammo’s all gone
    So take a last look
    At your bucks, does, and fawns
    The Injuns have got ’em
    Geronimo won.

  6. I predicted revenge politics…Manitoba, the Thunderbird House Province of Canada.

    1. Aye. Fishing for residents should be discouraged. We should fish for the rich instead!

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