THE KILL OF WILD GEESE BY THE NATIVES OF THE HUDSON-JAMES BAY REGION

• Main Authors: Harold C. Hanson, Campbell Curriej
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Canada; Hudson; Arctic; eskimo*; James Bay
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.538.6001; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic10-4-211.pdf

T HE health and economic plight of the Indians and Eskimos in northern North America in recent years have become matters of increasing concern to the governments of Canada and the United States. Because wildlife continues to be the basic resource affecting the general welfare of these natives, its preservation and sound management assume an im-portance unequalled elsewhere on the continent. In the Hudson-James Bay area, wild geese constitute a significant part of the wildlife resource. This paper attempts to appraise the importance of the goose kills to the Indians and Eskimos and to the various goose populations involved. Most of the data were gathered by the interview method. This method of assessing kills is subject to inaccuracies because of the tendency of some natives to report their kills in round figures. Winter inventory figures of goose populations cited here also contain a margin of error. Nevertheless, as both kill and population figures were obtained in the same manner in succeeding years, they should be fairly comparable from year to year.