The Deer Hunter

5:00 A.M. to be settled in their deer hunting spots 30 minutes before the sun came up to assure that they did not scare any deer…

Bannock, known for being a huge staple to the Indigenous Peoples diets, this simple unleavened bread could be prepared in little time and kept well. *It is believed that bannock originally found its way to North America with Scottish fur traders between the 18th and 19th century. Scottish people prepared their loaves, using barley, oatmeal, or peameal. Frying it in a griddle, also known as a bannock stone, the loaf was left to cook near the bottom of a fire. Many of the First Peoples loved…

hunting of animals is an activity that many people all around the world participate in. However, in the story The Hunt by Josephine Donovan, the hunting of animals is banned and humans hunt each other for sport instead. The narrator is one of these hunters and he describes his feelings in great and uncensored detail. Through the use of detailed language, the hunting of humans is described to force the reader to feel disgust. This feeling comes from how the narrator talks about women, as if they…

“Deer Hit” by Jon Loomis is about a young man’s experience while driving home while intoxicated in the early hours of the morning. Due to his inebriation, he does not see a group of deer on the road until it is too late; therefore, he hits one deer and drives his car into a ditch. Once the young man realizes that the deer is nearly dead, he reacts by bringing it home with him and telling his father what has happened. His father reacts coldly and kills the injured deer, and the boy returns the…

I am in front and now we are in the woods. I slow down and the pack follows. I hear something, and my solid white fur stands on end. I take a whiff, and I smell a family of deer and another doe further in the woods. I crouch, a motion the rest of the wolves copy. Our ears flick around, and I sound off a single bark. The deer run far out in front of us; they are fast, but we are faster. We catch up easily, and one wolf pounces on the buck and I pounce on one doe. We let the fawn live along with…

Hunters and the so called "sport" of hunting causes injury, pain, and suffering to animals and their families, as well as their habitat, and also leads to the extinction of many animal species. The inevitable act of hunting responsible for the deaths of countless animals annually, including approximately forty-two million doves, 14 million ducks, 6 million deer, and 25 million rabbits, not even to mention the fact that these animals aren't the only ones being killed. (In Defense of Animals) One…

Mexico named la danza de venado also known as the deer dance. A native Yaqui dance that is used to dramatize deer hunting in the honoring of the natural world we live in and especially those white tailed deer which were the providers for the hunters and their family’s essentials. The dance was designed to portray a deer’s graceful and active movements. The dancers wear deer heads and dress in an Indian manner as when they lived in the times where hunters wore clothes worn out of animals they…

explains a different type of injury, injuries directed toward animals. In the text, there is an entire section labeled “Pain and Suffering”. This area informs the audience/reader on how animals suffer. “A British study of deer hunting found that 11 percent of deer who’d been killed by hunters died only after…

Whit Gibbons says ”the proportion of hunters in the general population has declined steadily over the last four decades, going from eleven percent in 1960 to 8.3 percent from the 1900’s to about six percent in 2001.” Gibbons, Whit. "Why Is Hunting Good for the Environment?”Almost any statistic…

happens to me when I see a deer, bow hunting. Bowhunting gives people a chance for a more challenging hunt versus hunting with a rifle; it lets the hunter closer to the animal they're hunting, the season is much longer than rifle or shotgun season and it is a very good stress reliever. Some hunters prefer hunting with a bow because it gives the animal a fair chance of survival, other hunters prefer using a bow because they can get much closer to the animal, 58% of bow hunters said they…