03-18-2012, 05:26 PM
While there's little controversy around the bald eagle kills, there is a tribal hunting situation that is very controversial and still unresolved, and might fit your description of "exploding liberal heads" a little better.
That's the gray whale hunts by the Makah tribe that lives around Neah Bay, Washington. The right to hunt whales for sustenance was included in their 1855 treaty with the United States (signed on the beach in my town by Chief Se'al (seattle) of the Duwamish who either did or did not make one of the more famous Indian speeches of American history, about the sale of the lands, "how do you buy or sell the sky and wind and mist, etc.)
They stopped hunting in the 1920's due to the decline in whale populations from commercial hunting.
In 1999, they killed a whale, using canoes and harpoons but also a rifle to make the kill more humane than their traditional methods.
The hunts still don't have the blessing of the US gov't, that's been an epic decade-long legal battle.
I personally think it's OK if they take a whale or two each year especially since their customs, unlike that of commercial fishing, have been respectful of the overall health of the species.
http://www.nwr.noaa.gov/marine-mammals/w...e-hunt.cfm
http://www.makah.com/whalingrecent.html
That's the gray whale hunts by the Makah tribe that lives around Neah Bay, Washington. The right to hunt whales for sustenance was included in their 1855 treaty with the United States (signed on the beach in my town by Chief Se'al (seattle) of the Duwamish who either did or did not make one of the more famous Indian speeches of American history, about the sale of the lands, "how do you buy or sell the sky and wind and mist, etc.)
They stopped hunting in the 1920's due to the decline in whale populations from commercial hunting.
In 1999, they killed a whale, using canoes and harpoons but also a rifle to make the kill more humane than their traditional methods.
The hunts still don't have the blessing of the US gov't, that's been an epic decade-long legal battle.
I personally think it's OK if they take a whale or two each year especially since their customs, unlike that of commercial fishing, have been respectful of the overall health of the species.
http://www.nwr.noaa.gov/marine-mammals/w...e-hunt.cfm
http://www.makah.com/whalingrecent.html