
Audrey Thayer: Demonstrating Ojibwe Treaty Rights
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- Parent Category: ICTV
- Category: IndianCountryTV
- Published: 16 May 2010

Produced by Nick Vander Puy
LaPointe, Wisconsin (www.IndianCountryTV.com)
Amid giant Star Wars fishing boats, with GPS machines, trolling motors, pulled by huge trucks heading up the highway and getting ready for the May 15 Minnesota sport fishing season, several Ojibwe in canoes and jon boats with paddles and oars set some gill nets Friday, May 14 in Lake Bemidji. The Ojibwe netters were attempting to uplift their treaty rights to hunt, fish, and gather in the ceded territory under the 1855 Treaty with the United States.
Several hundred supporters watched from shore near the drum.
After a few hours Minnesota Department of Natural Resources game wardens raced across the lake in speed boats to stop the tribal fishing.