NWT Chief Justice Shannon Smallwood has quashed a search warrant that resulted in caribou meat being seized from a camp belonging to the Lutsel KSA国际影视传媒櫭� Dene First Nation (LKDFN).

The NWT Attorney General admitted in NWT Supreme Court that the search warrant SA国际影视传媒渨as issued without lawful authority.SA国际影视传媒�

In a news release issued Monday, LKDFN stated that it is considering a civil lawsuit against the GNWT for the SA国际影视传媒渦nlawful raid.SA国际影视传媒�

SA国际影视传媒淚 donSA国际影视传媒檛 know how else to describe the raid than traumatic. Our people are traumatized. They are also very angry,SA国际影视传媒� said Iris Catholique, Thaidene N毛n茅 manager for LKDFN. SA国际影视传媒淲e have been working so hard to heal from the violence that our Elders and ancestors have experienced at the hands of government officials through things like residential school and wildlife policy, and also to protect our young people from those kinds of experiences. This situation is especially devastating and embarrassing because we thought the GNWT was a collaborator in our efforts to protect our land and a co-governing partner of Thaidene N毛n茅. How can we trust them after this?SA国际影视传媒�

The investigation by staff from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources was carried out on Sept. 13 at Artillery Lake in the Thaidene N毛n茅 Indigenous Protected Area and National Park Reserve.

SA国际影视传媒淲hile we welcome the governmentSA国际影视传媒檚 admission that the warrant and search were unlawful and violated our peopleSA国际影视传媒檚 rights, LKDFN repeats its call for an investigation into the conduct of the wildlife officers and the events that led to the warrant and also an apology for what happened at our camp in September,SA国际影视传媒� said LKDFN Chief James Marlowe. SA国际影视传媒淲e believe the officials who sanctioned this raid should resign.SA国际影视传媒�

Days after the ENR investigation at the camp, Minister Shane Thompson stated that pair of wildlife officers were investigating two separate reports from the public of illegal harvesting happening within the caribou management zone.

Thompson said 10 caribou in total were harvested, all located inside the management zone, with a significant amount of edible meat wasted.