Elk Hunting

Pictured from left to right: Kimmie Walden, Bucko Teeple, and Brandon Carrick

During the fall of 2007 Native Americans practiced there new right to hunt elk. The first to practice this and put his name in the record books was Bucko Teeple. He shot a bull elk that was a 6x6, measured 39 in from base to tip, had the circumference of 5 in a half inches, and weighed around 720 pounds. This trophy was taken opening morning December 11th 2007.

On December 14th a boy the age of 12 named Brandon Carrick also practiced the new treaty rights and shot himself a cow elk that field dressed at just over 200 pounds. Carrick also made history by being the youngest to take a elk in Michigan and as a tribal member using the new treaty rights.

Kimmie Walden a 31 year old woman also practiced her rights as she took a 398 pound cow elk on December 15th.