And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Navajo officials probing dumped coyote
carcasses
http://www.azcentral.com/news/1212coyotes.shtml
By Bill Donovan
Special for The Republic
Dec. 12, 1998
WINDOW ROCK -- Navajo
officials are investigating
sponsors of a recent coyote-hunting competition after the
carcasses
of 41 coyotes were found in a wash near Fort Defiance.
Traditional Navajo leaders, pointing to the revered place the
coyote
holds in Navajo culture, have expressed dismay at the killing of
coyotes, apparently for sport.
Two or three such contests have been held annually on the
reservation for the past several years.
Contestants, who pay up to $100 to compete, lure coyotes by
either imitating coyote sounds or by using tape recordings of
coyotes in distress.
Sponsors of a recent contest reported the top hunter killed nine
coyotes and won $870. The names of the winners indicate that
both
Navajos and non-Navajos participated. The sponsors could not be
reached to comment.
The dead coyotes were found Dec. 1 but authorities have not
positively connected the competition to the dead animals,
found in
Black Creek Wash, three to four miles northeast of Fort
Defiance.
It's legal to kill coyotes, with a permit, but
traditionalists say that
goes against tribal teaching.
"When we were growing up, we were taught that the only time you
could shoot a coyote was when he was killing livestock," said
Jack
Jackson, director of Dine education Philosophy at Dine
College in
Tsaile.
Navajos are taught, he said, that the coyote, who is also
known in
Navajo stories as the Trickster, played a major role in the
creation
of the universe.
The coyote also plays a major role in many Navajo ceremonies and
is known to bring messages or predict the future.
Lydelle Davies, Navajo Environmental Protection Agency director,
said her agency is trying to determine if any citations
should be filed
for not disposing of the animal remains properly. The Navajo EPA
hauled the carcasses to a landfill.
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