"You can't put a strip mine here. I'm super cereal!" "You can't put a strip mine here. I'm super cereal!"
What's wrong with mining for godl and copper?!? I think Sasquatch's ancestors would approve of using tools to improve living standards and create prosperity.
Just in case ...It’s called mitigation. Build the mine.
Find out what Bigfoots like and give them free stuff.
Oh boy. Native Americans (or "First Nations" or whatever they are called these days) try to hold up tangible economic development based on a fantasy creature. In a sane world, their "issue" would be laughed right off the agenda the same as if a Greek claimed that the mine would disrupt the habitat of Zeus or Apollo. But we don't live in a sane world. We live in a PC world where you would get sent to sensitivity re-education prison if you laugh at a First Nation person. So we have to take this s___t seriously.
BC boy here. Pretty much sasquatch sightings are so-so in the Interior BC. Lower Nelson or Cranbrook at the US-CA border, you get the odd stories when hiking or fishing. They’re the original illegal alien, crossing from North Cali to WA into BC and vice versa. MonsterQuest even did the episode called Ape Island (Vancouver Island) where the sasquatch swims across the islands. Now I see the other sasquatch in the White Hut.
Angelina Stump told the panel that her people's oral history includes a time many generations ago when animals spoke directly with people. At that point in their history, the aborginals had to kill the sasquatches or risk being killed themselves. "If that did not happen, to this day they might have taken us over if that did not happen,"
There was no word on the theory that the feast day main course for Big Foot is Spotted Owl. It is believed by many and confirmed by a computer simulation study that increases in Big Foot (cant’s spell sasquatch) population is directly correlated to dramatic decrease in spotted owl habitat.
The spotted owl population decrease to the verge of endangerment was previously thought to be caused by timbering old growth forest. Current studies now indicate that is not the case. The owls are merely eaten by the more plentiful Big Foots.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/03/elf_detection_101.html
The search for elves delayed Aloca 6 months in Iceland.
A friend of mind used scientific methods to evaluate a proposed road in Hawaii for burial sites. Found several areas with possible sites. However, the local native said that they didn’t care about graves where the spirit had left the body already. They were only concerned about graves where the spirit was still there. And for that they needed the native guy (a Shaman or some-such).
I wonder how much of this is for “real” (the natives really believe these things), and how much of it is just made-up to extort money from the interested parties?