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Wildlife Harvesting Rights Survey

Wildlife Advisory Team Wildlife Harvesting Rights Survey

Spring 2021

Introduction

Under Wildlife Milestone 4 of the Foundation Agreement (Appendix 1), Lake Babine Nation will express its understanding of the scope and content of LBN’s inherent, Aboriginal, Wildlife Harvesting Rights. The Wildlife Advisory Team will lead this work, in consultation with LBN people.

This survey is just meant to start the conversation on this topic. We would appreciate all LBN peoples’ input on these questions – your voice matters to us.  Please answer as many as you feel comfortable answering.

Lake Babine must draw on its traditional laws, customs and teachings to explain its inherent harvesting rights. So, if you remember which elders taught you what you know about your rights, please share that as part of your answers.

Your name and survey answers are completely confidential, and all answered surveys will be combined so that nobody can be identified from their answers.
1.Gender?
2.Age Range
3.Currently living in?
4.What do you consider your home community?
5.Registered Lake Babine?
6.Clan Affiliation?
7.Best way to engage with you (choose as many as you want)
In-person
Phone
Focus group (cafe/house)
Meeting (community)
Family meetings
8.Do you have access to (choose all that apply)
Phone
Internet
Computer/tablet
Email
9.How knowledgeable are you about historic LBN wildlife harvesting practices, customs, laws or traditions?
10.How knowledgeable are you about current LBN wildlife harvesting practices customs or laws?
11.What wildlife harvesting activities do or have you engaged in? Select all that apply.
Hunting- big game (e.g. moose, bear, deer, elk)
Hunting- small game (e.g. rabbits, grouse, ducks)
Trapping - on registered trapline
Trapping - not on registered trapline
12.Are you satisfied with the amount of wildlife harvesting that you are currently able to do? Why or why not?
13.Do you agree that an LBN person does not need to be a “status Indian” under the Indian Act to enjoy LBN’s inherent Wildlife Harvesting Rights?
14.What is the situation for non-LBN spouses who want to hunt in LBN Territory to feed their LBN family?
15.Please choose an answer and please share any further thoughts on this topic:
16.Do LBN’s harvesting laws, customs and teachings allow night hunting? If no, why not? If yes, what practices or protocols must be followed to ensure a safe night hunt?
17.Are any hunting methods prohibited under LBN’s own laws, customs or teachings?
18.Do LBN’s own harvesting laws, customs or teachings include a right to hunt at any time of the year? If no, when is hunting not allowed and why is it not allowed? (If there are different rules for different species, please share these details).
19.Is there a limit to how much moose (or other game) a Lake Babine member can harvest under traditional LBN laws, customs or teachings? If yes, what is that limit?
20.Would you support LBN limiting its own moose harvest for conservation purposes while numbers are low? If yes, under what conditions?
21.Do LBN harvesting rights include a right to sell the game you hunt?
22.If yes, are there limits on the amount of game that can be sold by LBN people?
23.What do Lake Babine laws, customs and teachings say about LBN’s relationship to wildlife and how to treat wildlife?
24.Do you have a Possession and Acquisition Licence (P.A.L.)? Why or why not?
25.What practices or protocols do LBN harvesters follow to ensure a safe hunt?
26.How do LBN harvesters learn LBN hunting laws and protocols?
27.Are LBN people free to invite non-LBN people, including other Indigenous people, to hunt in LBN Territory? If yes, what is the LBN practice or protocol for doing so?
28.Before Europeans arrived, did Lake Babine enforce its own hunting laws, customs and teachings with its own members? Please share what you know about how that worked.
29.Are any LBN hunting laws being enforced right now within LBN by Lake Babine people? If yes, which laws? Who enforces them and how?
30.Are LBN rights holders allowed to hunt anywhere in LBN Territory under LBN laws, customs and teachings? If no, where are they allowed to hunt?
31.If there is anything else you would like to share about this survey or LBN harvesting rights, please include it here
32.Optional: If you are comfortable doing so, please add your name and contact information. Your name and contact information will be kept confidential and will not be attached to the answers you have provided
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