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The Walleye War: The Struggle for Ojibwe Spearfishing and Treaty Rights

The Walleye War: The Struggle for Ojibwe Spearfishing and Treaty Rights

Nesper, Larry

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Law

Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN10: 0803283806
ISBN13: 9780803283800
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: May 1 2002
Pages: 245
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.04
Language: English
For generations, the Ojibwe bands of northern Wisconsin have spearfished spawning walleyed pike in the springtime. The bands reserved hunting, fishing, and gathering rights on the lands that would become the northern third of Wisconsin in treaties signed with the federal government in 1837, 1842, and 1854. Those rights, however, would be ignored by the state of Wisconsin for more than a century. When a federal appeals court in 1983 upheld the bands' off-reservation rights, a deep and far-reaching conflict erupted between the Ojibwe bands and some of their non-Native neighbors.

Starting in the mid-1980s, protesters and supporters flocked to the boat landings of lakes being spearfished; Ojibwe spearfisher-men were threatened, stoned, and shot at. Peace and protest rallies, marches, and ceremonies galvanized and rocked the local communities and reservations, and individuals and organizations from across the country poured into northern Wisconsin to take sides in the spearfishing dispute.

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