![]() “The transgressions that were done here, it’s despicable,” said fourth vice chief Heather Bear with the FSIN, calling it “painful” to hear what was done to the Morningchilds. He wants to see the officers with the Ministry of Environment held accountable for the trauma he said they caused to his family.įSIN fourth vice chief Heather Bear, speaks to media in Saskatoon on March 24, 2023. The Elder said the meat that was confiscated was not returned to him. “We’re criminals in our own country for doing little things,” Morningchild said during a news conference held at the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) in Saskatoon. At that time, he said a judge dismissed the charges. He attended court to deal with the matter in January. The main charge, Morningchild said, was for having wild moose meat inside his home. Morningchild said he received a court summons and was charged with various offences and hit with a $2,800 fine as a result of the raid. “Now I can guarantee you, if you were to go to every house around my place, you would have wild meat - wild moose meat - in their house,” Morningchild said. Morningchild said it is typical to share meat in their community. Morningchild said he and his wife are both lodge holders, and his wife is also a well-known medicine woman, so ceremonies are a significant part of their duties. He said the moose meat he owned was provided to him by other community members with the intent for it to be used in ceremonies and help feed Morningchild’s family, as well as for him to give to others in his capacity as an Elder. “We are traditional people,” Morningchild explained. ![]() While he doesn’t own guns or hunt himself anymore, Morningchild said he still sets snares to capture rabbits. Morningchild has spent most of his life living on the reserve, where he and his wife of 35 years try to live off the land. “They just took away everything,” Morningchild said. ![]() ![]() ![]() He said the conservation officers confiscated the freezer’s contents along with wild meat kept in three smaller freezers. “I didn’t even have any firearms inside the house.” “How can I kill three moose?” Morningchild asked. It was not meat that Morningchild himself had hunted. He estimated about 20 officers surrounded their home and at first he thought it was part of some official exercise.Įventually, Morningchild said the officers broke the lock on a large freezer which contained moose meat that was saved – largely for ceremonial purposes – in the coming spring. Morningchild, a 70-year-old Cree Elder living on Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation near Loon Lake, recalled the raid looking like a major criminal event because of the number of officers and vehicles participating in the search. New coloring pages Most popular Animals Deers Bears Birds Butterflies Camels and dromedaries Cats Chameleons and Lizards Dinosaurs Dogs Dolphins Fox Frogs Giraffes Horses Insects Kangaroos Lion Monkeys Mouse Owls Peacocks Pigs Pisces Rabbit Sharks Squirrels Tigers Turtles Unicorns Wolf Various Themes Africa Back to school Basketball Car Día de los Muertos Carnival China Chinese New Year Chinese Zodiac Christmas Circus Cowboys Cupcakes And Cakes Dreamcatchers Easter Fairy Father's Day Fire Department Flags Flowers Galette Halloween Happy New Year Holidays Indians Japan Justin Bieber Kawaii Kings And Queens Knights And Dragons Magi Mother's Day Mushrooms Olympic Games One Direction Pirates Playmobils Princesses Pusheen Réseaux sociaux Robots Soccer Social Networks Sports Tales Thank You Trees Vampires Zodiac Signs Zombies Educative Adult Alphabet Days of the Week Doodle Art Formes Fruits And Vegetables Labyrinths Magic Coloring Mandalas Numbers Wordplay Art Art Déco Art Nouveau Diego Vélasquez Fernand Léger Frida Kahlo Henri Matisse Joan Miro Johannes Vermeer Pierre-Auguste Renoir Roy Lichtenstein Salvador Dalí Vincent Van Gogh Disney (classics) 101 Dalmatians Brother Bear Hercules Jungle Book Lilo And Stich Mickey And His Friends Mulan Peter Pan Pinoccio Pocahontas Sleeping beauty Tarzan The Aristocats The Beauty And The Beast The Hunchback Of Notre Dame The Lady And The Tramp The Lion King The Little Mermaid The Princess And The Frog Disney / Pixar A Bugs Life Big Hero 6 Brave Cars Cars 2 Cars 3 Coco Finding Dory Finding Nemo Frankenweenie Frozen Frozen 2 Inside Out Mary Poppins Moana Monsters Academy Monsters, Inc.Doug Morningchild says he and his wife were at home together on Octowhen conservation officers surrounded and raided their home.Īccording to Morningchild, multiple vehicles with officers from the Ministry of Environment drove up to the couple’s home and searched it, along with Morningchild’s truck, without providing a copy of a search warrant when requested. ![]()
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