You are taking the food from my fridge’: Indigenous hunter shoots down regulating night hunting – CBC

Jan 24, 2017

Elissa Gabriel says safety comes first when she hunts at night

When Elissa Gabriel needs to feed her large family she heads out with her husband to go hunting — sometimes at night.

As an Indigenous hunter she says the debate around night time hunting isn’t addressing the important part the practice plays for her family and many others.

“You have to consider the families that are out there providing for their families. You have to think about what I have to go through,” she said.

“If you take something from me, you are taking something from my whole family. If you take that night hunting from me you are taking the food from my fridge.”

Read More: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/indigenous-hunter-night-hunting-1.3949380

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