New Zealand researchers on cultural exchange in Łutsel K'e shocked by ENR raid on camp
CBC
A pair of researchers from New Zealand visiting Łutsel K'e Dene First Nation for a cultural exchange said they were shocked by the "almost militant" raid on the culture camp by wildlife officers investigating illegal caribou harvesting.
Puke Timoti is a researcher with the Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, a Crown research institute on land, environment and biodiversity.
Timoti is Māori, an Indigenous person from New Zealand, a nation with a colonial history similar to Canada's.
"I was just shocked around just how certain approaches are still continuing in that manner," he told CBC News.
"We're very familiar with that back home and we just thought we wouldn't ever see it in another place."
The N.W.T. Department of Environment says officers were executing a search warrant after reports of illegal caribou hunting.
Environment Minister Shane Thompson said in a statement on Friday officers found the carcasses of 10 caribou within the mobile no-hunting zone that follows the endangered Bathurst caribou herd to protect it from hunters.
Phil Lyver, also a researcher with Manaaki Whenua, said the situation could've been rectified more peacefully.
"What they should have done was ... come up the beach, had a talk with the elders at the camp," he said. "Let's have a cup of tea. Seriously, sit around the fire."
Instead, Lyver said they witnessed numerous officers dressed in tactical gear searching all the tents and teepees at the camp.
"There's a huge amount of hurt around the community with that response," he said.
"To come in and search the tents like that, we just felt was an… overreaction."
The pair were part of a 16-person group taking part in a two-week cultural exchange that was being done to learn about the First Nation's involvement in the Thaidene Nëné National Park, where the raid took place.
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