Posted on 02/24/2005 4:50:31 PM PST by DGray
KUUJJUAQ, Nunavik - ''I have nothing, I have nothing,'' Johnny Munick cried out, remembering the day in 1960 when his team of sled dogs, in their harnesses and ready for a hunting trip, was shot by government authorities. The incident was part of an extermination of Inuit huskies - and, as a result, the abrupt end of their owners' ability to provide for their families - that took place from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s.
Arms flung wide, an anguished figure in a heavy black parka, the elderly Inuk was standing on the auditorium stage following the Jan. 19 premiere of ''Echo of the Last Howl,'' a film that includes both documentary material and reenactments of the slaughter. One by one, he and two dozen other older men walked to the microphone to recount their experiences of the cataclysm to an audience of about 800 community members and visiting politicians, including Canadian opposition leader Gilles Duceppe.
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might be of interest for the doggie ping list
Notice that the Canadians were doing this "for the children" ~
Odds are this single action, the killing of the Inuit dogs, probably did more to foster diabetes among the Inuit than any other change in their traditional way of life.
Question, though - why would diabetes be a result of this? A sudden and forced change of diet, maybe?
You and me both.
Notice that the man said the dogs could smell caribou miles away ~ people dan't. The dogs could also bring down the caribou and small game to be "shared" (dogs being social they share, particularly with the alpha in the group, in this case the Inuit man driving the team).
When you're system is all geared up to eat your requisit diet of 40% protein per day, 57% fat, and 3% stomach contents (if you're lucky), adopting the agricultural substitute of 90% starch and 10% sugar just doesn't cut it. You'll burn out in no time, and that's called diabetes!
Probably.
They'd always eaten a fish/seal/bear diet.
An all meat and fat diet and they probably had an impaired ability to digest carbohydrates.
Gotcha. Given this and the other consequences described in the article, I would be very surprised if human deaths didn't directly result from this action.
Here's your answer right here. The ultimate goal is that we are all one color, one culture, one ideal and pay homage to the great One World Vision. We are not allowed to have our own culture, unless we are recently immigrated into Little Sudan or Little Cuba.
I have witnessed this in the Southern US where I have lived all my life. Daily our culture, our history and even our accent are being purged. Back in 2000 when the Confederate Flag was succesfully removed from the SC capitol dome, I said repeatedly that if you think this if about that flag, you're in for a rude awakening soon. It's about assimilation and control.
It's not too late to round up the warcriminals there and execute them.
Don't like it. Turn it off!
Hell, our group of friends spent New Year's Eve 1999 together, in the house that had the most guns (and we brought all our own), and had all our animals with us (a little chaotic, yes), and we were ready to deal with marauders and pillagers and whatever came our way.
Canadian liberalism is truly a mystery. I've encountered a few canadians in my day and I've found them to be generally a cold and viscious sort. This story of senseless dog murder in order to control a people was not carried out in the 1800s it was just 'yesterday'. The crime was committed by hundreds of individual canadians over many many years. It is a national crime committed by a criminal nation.
It was just hubby and I and our bunch of dogs and more firepower than the 2 of us can handle at once but we were "watchful", just the same....:))
At the time, I had one very old and arthritic dog who gave me particular worry.
Had we been forced to flee, in some "worst case scenario", I knew we'd not outrun *anybody* with her along but there was no damn way I'd have left her behind.
Five years later, it all seems ridiculous in hindsight but we were prepared to dig in and die with them, if need be.
We still would, if it comes to it although the current pack is young and strong and can run 40 mph so we could turn them loose in the woods, if we had to.
They're natural pack hunting Ibizans and could easily survive on their own, should something "happen" to us *or* they'd come home when whatever it was, was over.
[Lord, do all "dog people" think like us?]
Thanks for story.
I've always liked you and know I know *why*....;)
Here's something bitterly funny.
My dad grew up best buddies with the local gunshop owner.
The guy always bragged that he "had land in Canada in case it all went to hell" and he'd already built a cabin and stocked it with food, guns and ammo.
I wonder if he still has that land, considering what Canada's become?
Never met a good yankee in 50 years. And it's "y'all".
In English spelling does not necessarily follow pronunciation anyway.
BTW, you all will simply love being Yankees ~ plenty of folks around to ask about that too ~ millions came North in the 1940s and 1950s ~ all over the Lower and Central Midwest. Call almost any phone number in Detroit.
But, back to the dogs and the Inuit ~ the Canadians were exterminating those people, and right under the noses of the Northeastern State Liberals who dominated the US Senate and House in those days ~ at the same time the Southern Democrats refused to join the Republicans until recently, so they are nearly as guilty.
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