As for the “kanachithakan”, if one treats it disrespectfully, or it gets into the hands of another person, the hunt will be unsuccessful for that animal. This happened to me personally. I had killed about 8 moose, about the month of march. It is very difficult transporting the moose as the distances are far. I did not bring back 3 of the moose and since the geese had arrived in the spring, I ignored the 3 moose in favour of the goose hunt. After this, the moose had seen me discard the 3 moose as waste, and I was unsuccessful at moose hunting for the next 3 years. Even though there were plenty of moose in my hunting area, and I saw and shot at moose, I couldn’t kill one. My gun would either jam, or when it did fire, I missed. So, I was not able to kill a moose for 3 years because I had wasted 3 moose carcasses. This is why this belief exists, that you’re very close to animals which you depend on for your survival. These were the beliefs of our ancestors long ago.

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