FWP officer detained by tribal members

Colorado Cowboy

Colorado Cowboy

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It is a little known fact that here in SW Colorado (might be in the whole state and other states for that matter) that native americans say they have the right to hunt & fish on ancestral hunting lands. They need no license, there are no bag or seasonal restrictions and they can actually enter private property. No one talks much about it, but there is a lot of murky water out there about treaty violations and other things that the native americans say gives them this right. We have 2 reservations near us and this is something no one wants to really talk about. I don't know how much of this goes on, but if a native American tried to trespass to excersize "his treaty rights" , I am sure all hell would break loose.
 
JimP

JimP

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In all reality the Indian Reservation is a separate nation inside of our nation. Their laws are their laws and you don't want to get caught breaking them.

On the hunting and fishing side of it it is controlled by the tribe and in areas like the White Mountain Reservation in Arizona even the members of the tribe can not hunt those huge elk, they leave them for the stupid white man to come in and give them big bucks to do so.
 
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