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> As if a healthy Native nation wouldn’t stop hunting endangered species! The North American megafauna didn’t disappear all by themselves. More recently, the M
by bobthepanda 3y ago
> As if a healthy Native nation wouldn’t stop hunting endangered species!
The North American megafauna didn’t disappear all by themselves. More recently, the Maori certainly made some species go extinct in New Zealand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Zealand_species_extinct_in_the_Holocene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Zealand_species_ex...
If you’re going to recognize that natives/first nations/etc. have agency then we have to accept the good and the bad instead of infantilizing them according to some fantasy ideal.
- b112 3y agoThat wasn't my meaning. We have hunting quotas, and attempt to mitigate over fishing, and so on. Yes, we aren't perfect, but we try. My point was, if a contempary Native nation existed, had modern agriculture methods, and was able to subsist without hunting? I suspect they would self regulate as we do.