The Walleye War: the struggle for Ojibwe spearfishing and treaty rights
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Main Author: Nesper, Larry (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press ©2002
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index
1. Cultural Topography and Spearfishing -- 2. Anishinaabe Culture -- 3. Hunting, Fishing, and "Violating" -- 4. The War Begins -- 5. The War Within -- 6. Spearing in the Four Directions -- 7. Anishinaabe Summer -- 8. The Referendum
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 245 pages)
ISBN:0803202296
1280374136
9780803202290
9781280374135

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