Jack Gladstone/ Harassed Tribal Hunter by Tribal Game Warden
It would appear that Lame Bear, a Blackfeet Tribal Game Warden needs to loose his job. Apparently his authority has given him a swelled opinion of what he is actually capable of doing under Tribal Authority.
It is these sorts of Tribal enforcement officers that make Tribes appear in an improper light, as such simply he needs to be replaced to eliminate any chance to harass Gladstone. Not all Tribal hunters obviously agree with the way that the tribes are running this bloodfest and niether does Protect The Wolves™. Our wildlife are all Sacred, all have a special meaning to most traditional tribal members in one way or another. We will continue to follow this story and the future for both this Traditional Tribal Member and the outcome of what happens to this particular Tribal Game Warden.
This story is but one of many why our childrens wild resources that came to this earth in a protected area need to remain protected when they exit Yellowstone National Park. We will be reaching out to Gladstone this week and will update.
Jack Gladstone’s first hunt may be his last.
The well-known Montana singer, who has received the 2016 Governor’s Arts Award along with other honors and touts the nickname “Montana’s troubadour,” is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe. As such, he secured one of the first tribal permits to hunt bison near the Yellowstone National Park boundary earlier this month. This is the first year the tribe has exercised its treaty rights to hunt Yellowstone bison when they migrate into Montana near Gardiner and West Yellowstone.
But after tangling with the tribe’s game wardens, Gladstone would be happy never to hunt again.
“Because I’m a tribal member they have the authority to make my life unbearable on the reservation,” he said. “I’m very, very troubled.”
Blackfeet tribal attorney Derek Kline did not respond to a phone call to his office.
Gardiner hunt
Few bison were migrating out of Yellowstone when Gladstone arrived in Gardiner on Feb. 7 with his wife, Patti, son-in-law Tyrel Hulet, and his friend Sam Miller. The extra folks were there to help Gladstone butcher and haul a bison if he was lucky enough to shoot and kill one of the large animals.
But the scene near the park boundary was offensive to veteran hunters Hulet and Miller. Tribal members sat in their trucks until bison wandered out of the park far enough to legally shoot. Some of the animals were injured and ran back into the park.
“It wasn’t what I expected for a hunt,” said Hulet, a Columbia Falls resident.
“That was troublesome,” Gladstone agreed.
“It was pretty wild,” said Miller, a Kila resident. “The dynamics were strange.”
The firing line, as some people refer to it, is a constant source of complaints to the Park County Sheriff’s Office.
“There are a lot of state and tribal hunters congested in a small area,” said Sheriff Scott Hamilton of the Beatty Gulch region just outside the park boundary. “People block the road with their vehicles. And some locals are upset with the way the bison are taken. There are a lot of shots, not all of them clean shots. It’s difficult for people to watch that.”
Source: Blackfeet bison hunt goes bad for well-known Montana singer | Outdoors | missoulian.com