Minerals Management Service “Hunger Knows No Law”1: Seminal Native Protest and The

• Main Authors: Michael Burwell, Barrow Duck-in Of, Sadie Brower Neakok
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• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; eskimo*
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Our life is one of continuous hunting for meat and should we be stopped or hindered from hunting in one of the seasons, we are in very tough shape for meat.--Eben Hopson We were not about to change our diet…We just have an ecological clock that says: “Hey, the ducks are here again. Let’s eat them. ” Our clock is stronger than law, which is not our law. We were still going to eat—we were saying we’re still going to be Eskimos.--Charlie Edwardsen, Jr. They must have a change in the tarnished treaty.As it is now, the federal government won’t let the Natives take ducks and geese while the ducks and geese are in the Arctic, but after the birds go south, where they are killed by the thousands by white sportsmen, the government says to the hungry Native, “Now you can hunt.”--The Rev. John Chambers, Barrow They made criminals of us, you know, by changing rules and regulations which our people never knew existed. We were not criminals.