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Ojibwe Treaty Rights

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Wisconsin Educational Communications Board
Year: 
2010

Ojibwe Treaty Rights

Ojibwe Treaty Rights
Ojibwe Treaty Rights
Ojibwe Treaty Rights

As years passed between the signing of treaties and today, American Indians living in Wisconsin re-discovered that they had the right to hunt and fish on the ceded territories, just as their ancestors did. Two brothers took it upon themselves to get arrested for exercising their rights in an attempt to correct a long-standing injustice, and their case took them to the highest court in the nation...

fisheries management, fishing rights, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC), intergovernmental cooperation, intertribal relations, protection of treaty rights, treaty rights
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Native Nations: 
Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa
Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Chippewa
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians
Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Sokaogon Chippewa Community
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Cultural Affairs, Environment and Natural Resources, Intergovernmental Relations, Land/Jurisdiction
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Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. "Ojibwe Treaty Rights." ENGAGE: State - Tribal - Local Government video series. Produced for the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board by Wisconsin Public Television. 2010. Documentary. (http://wimedialab.org/series/episode/tribal-government, accessed September 19, 2016)

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As the Ojibwe reclaimed their rights to hunt, fish, and gather on the ceded territories, they needed a system of laws, checks, and balances in order to both protect their resources and enforce the law. Soon other tribes followed suit, and soon co-equal systems of justice existed side by side with...
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We Are the Stewards: Indigenous-Led Fisheries Innovation in North America

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We Are the Stewards: Indigenous-Led Fisheries Innovation in North America
This paper offers an overview of the current state of Indigenous-led fisheries management in the United States and Canada. It summarizes major trends in Indigenous-led fisheries innovation in North America and presents common keys and challenges to the success of these efforts. It chronicles three...
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