Marilyn, I live in america where it is legal to carry a rifle,  I carry one with me in the vehicle where ever I go.   For a federal or state employee to tell me I dont have that right to carry a rifel because of a 2 week deer season is not in the decloration or even an amendment.  I didnt mind him checking but I do mind it when they step on my personal rights. Reply...

 Trust me dear, I have hunted for years, just wear the lucky hat and do as I say. Reply...

KX, the warden was doing his job...what we pay him to do. It's one of his duties to check out everyone that OBVIOUSLY looks like a hunter...duh...orange garb...rifle...DUH.... He was earning his paycheck. Reply...

you are welcome.... yes them hunters AS THEY calls themselvez.. do tend leave garbage..even the butch mommas.. LOL.. I cant stand to find trash in the woods or in the fields.. here in hillards area theres a field full of plastic bags..every fall we gather along the road there to watch the wind gently plant plastic grocery bags.. where they come from?  Hunters N theyre sandywiches,n beers cans.. terrible..I remember waay back when the Deer would herd in with our cows N horses. eat right alongside a pony..No Prob... deer are smart..yes.. I thot I would share this happening... I think its too dangerous for hunters to leave their cars n run the fields..LOL.. I may Accidentllly  FIND me a free ride..LOL>>> Reply...

I quit deer hunting over 10 years ago and have land off the lost wood game refuge.  I cant walk anymore like I used to.  Instead I like to just go out and drive the back roads or sit on a hill and just watch.  Yesterday i took a dive out to the bridge to see if the fish were biteing.  On the way i noticed movement running along a draw of wet land menangering towards the road, it was a buck and crossed the road in front of me.  His run was similar to a buck and he kept his head so low it made it difficult to tell if it had antlers or not.  I watched it for a ways and saw where he was held up.   I saw deeer hunters all around but none saw that buck.  I like watching them outwit the hunters if they can,  and I have watched big bucks crawl through the grass and come out behind hunters without them knowing. 

A Game Warden asked me one day for my license, I had a orange hat on, and a rifle with me.  He told me I was hunting because i had a rifle with and hunter orange.  I told him i carry the orange so if i get out of my pickup for some reason i do not get shot, and I carry a gun especially when everyone else does. THen I asked him what country he was from?  He insisted I had no right to carry a rifle during deer season, then i calmly asked him to get the hell of my land.  

 

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Glad you started this topic, 'cause I was going to also!  Yep, shooting from vehicles on highways and back roads is a very common sight this time of year - we've come upon vehicles sitting in the middle of the road, doors all open, nobody in it, off chasing deer.  Last night on my way home from Minot, I met tens of pick-ups, all occupants wearing their blaze orange, heading home from the opening day - which is great, don't get me wrong, my husband is out hunting as I write, BUT, just a reminder to any hunters out there...................whatever you brought with you in your vehicle when you left town - take it all back with you when you go back to town, your fast food bags, pop cans, beer cans, used kleenex's , ALL your garbage.  We live out here all year, you're here for a day or a week or two and it becomes your personal garbage dump?  Have some respect for landowners, don't trespass, get permission to enter posted land, don't open cattle gates without permission, etc. etc. etc.  I'm glad to see the deer population reduced, but please don't forget to be responsible for yourself while your'e hunting. Reply...

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thats a shame... Things truely haven't changed have they?  I been gone since 74... and we had crooked back then... I just wish that standing rock chairguy wud just quit.   he's too old and he's got enuff munny put aside. they all need audited as well. I thot that when one is voted in by the village,that ,that person has to be a enrolled and living on the rezz person... I know how crooked our tribe is... i remember a patty kelly whut lived off and in Bismarck and still drove to fort yates to her job,a job another better rezzer wudda got and had done. but its when they get in,they become power hungry... it sux,i know... another reason i dont come home... i watch and hear too many bad things. and too many deaths...I wish we did have kids there that actually give a damn. instead of trying to be these newage indian blingy stuffs. LOL :(  sooo many bD things happen there and outsiders here all think we are just living the high life with free welfare and governent monies... wrong!those govt. munnies WE never see. so where does it go?  OH YA!!! tribal cousils....hmmmm.  I say the tribe shud just get in their cars and go to the tribal cousil members hauses ALL of them and take what they want. becos all them hauses have their govt.owed munies in there.go get it.  it yours. I wud. LOL :) Reply...

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Well I can honestly say that in the White Shield district, the tribal chairman picks n chooses who HE wants to work with him...n the community doesnt have any say in it..BULLSH*T! Even one of the counselpersons from another community said she wouldnt do that.  For as long as the community has been started, it was always the community to vote on who should be working with the community.  NOT any more.  Until he is out of office..I wont call him my counsel person.  I dont ask him for help.  One day I was at the clinic..n he asked if I was sick.  I was going to say..pretty observant arent ya?So wise!!!  I was also going to tell him no I decided to take a day off n sit in the clinic n see who is all sick. Anyways..off that tangent before my blood starts going...

Most of the traffic stops n minor charges  are not found on a persons record.  What happens on the rez..stays on the rez. When I was younger I had a speeding ticket n driving w/o a license.  When I went to get one, it wasnt on there.  As far as child support, they have their own system.  They dont follow the state guidelines. They are trying to pass a bill to where the state's county sheriffs can come on the rez n patrol now.  Its like that in Montana.

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It takes a federal Marshal to come get us renegades... If a tribe can ban someone then whats the reason?or crime? is intermarrying a Crime and NOT love?how does the reservations all think on all the extra babies everyone is having and many are from off the rezz?  is there a law says they canna live there? or do they just get the treatment like old tyme australians did the aboriginals?If a people is wanting only their own blood there then why is it ok to register Other bloods NOT of native origin?  I doe get it? I have many questions as well. Reply...

I am not sure I completely understand tribal soveriegnty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_sovereignty_in_the_United_States

Tribal members of which I could be a member of the Turtle Mountains but never have gone up there to figure out how that works. Alas, because I am taking this class and my teacher knows I am Native he suggested that I compare politican systems.

ND and Minnesota require drivers liscences outside of reservation land they are governed only by their tribal chairman hence that would be once the go into the reservation they are kinda home free.

Some tribes in Minnesota require a drivers liscence to drive on their land not all. I do not know about ND Tribes. Lower Sioux in Minneosta requires Tribal members to live with in 10 miles of the reservation to receive per capita payments from Jackpot Junction in 2007 the payments were close to 6,000 a month per member.

How often to tribes re elect tribal chairmen? I know that they can impeach and have over the years impeached chairmen. Tribes have started using a percentage of their per capita payments towards community development buildings and health care. In Minnesota the Upper Sioux has started some wonderful clinics and Up North near Hinkley Minnesota they are starting their own form of Social Security for older Natives. Shakopee has started buying up more land and asking to make it part of the reservation which has people in Minnesota scared.

North Dakota is a state that manages its money better than Minnesota that is 8 Billion in debt. Now, I guess I have visited enough tribes in Minnesota for this report due the end of November but I will have to visit tribal chairman in this state. Perhaps, I should visit my grandmothers near Turtle Mountain. Reply...

I wonder how a tribe might be affected if the state they are in declares it's independence from the rest of the country. Reply...

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