Residents around the city of Timmins have long swapped stories of a ghostly white moose population occasionally spotted moving silently through forests of aspen and pine. No one needs one that bad,” said Chief Murray Ray of nearby Flying Post First Nation. Among Indigenous peoples in the region, white animals like bison, raven and grizzly bears, are considered sacred and shouldn’t be harmed. Story continuesIn 2013, a trio of hunters killed a white moose in the province of Nova Scotia, angering the local Mi’kmaq people. “I’m a proud Flying Post First Nation member and I just wanted to help any way I could,” he said.
