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On Friday, 4,000 members of the Colville Confederated Tribes were relieved by the Supreme Court of Canada s decision that will not only secure their hunting rights as a tribe, but may have implications for tens of thousands for other Native Americans who got pushed out of Canada and into America hundreds of years ago.
“I was so nervous before the decision. I don’t think I slept more than an hour the night before,” Rick Desautel, one of the descendants of the Sinixt tribe who has been fighting in this case for decades, said. “When the decision came through I just let out a huge sigh of relief.”
Wolf numbers continue to grow in Washington state, but still no hunting as in Idaho
The number of wolves in Washington state rose strongly last year, according to an annual report from the state Department of Fish and Wildlife released Friday. The rate of increase was more than double what Oregon reported earlier in the week for its wolf population in 2020.
The gray wolf population in Washington state increased by 22% in the past year, raising the minimum number of wolves documented by state and tribal biologists to 178 in 29 packs up from 145 wolves and 26 packs at the end of 2019. A combination of in-migration from neighboring states and Canada plus births within existing packs probably accounted for the increase, biologists told the state Fish and Wildlife Commission during a briefing Friday.
The number of wolves in Washington state rose strongly last year, according to an annual report from the state Department of Fish and Wildlife released
Supreme Court of Canada decision validates the existence of “extinct” Sinixt peoples
SHARE ON: Rick Desautel (centre) celebrates with friends and family outside the Nelson courthouse after a judge ruled the Sinixt have a right to hunt in BC. (Greg Nesteroff photo, 2017)
In a landmark Supreme Court of Canada case, a majority agreed that moving to live in the American part of their ancestral territory did not prevent the Lakes Tribe from being a successor group to the Sinixt.
As such, they found that the Lakes Tribe could be considered part of the “Aboriginal peoples of Canada” under section 35 of the Canadian Constitution.
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