Fish in the Lakes, Wild Rice and Game in Abundance: Testimony on Behalf of Mille Lacs Ojibwe Hu FROM THE PUBLISHER
On 13 August 1990 members of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe filed a lawsuit against the State of Minnesota for interfering with the hunting, fishing, and gathering rights that had been guaranteed to them in an 1837 treaty with the United States. In order to interpret the treaty the courts had to consider historical circumstances, the intentions of the parties, and the treaty's implementation. The Mille Lacs Band faced a mammoth challenge. How does one argue the Native side of the case when all historical documentation was written by non-Natives? The Mille Lacs selected six scholars to testify for them. Published here for the first time, Charles Cleland, James McClurken, Helen Tanner, John Nichols, Thomas Lund, and Bruce White discuss the circumstances under which the treaty was written, the personalities involved in the negotiations, and the legal rhetoric of the times, as well as analyze related legal conflicts between Natives and non-Natives.
SYNOPSIS
Presents the written testimony of six scholars that was used to bolster the 1990 case brought against the state of Minnesota in an effort by the Mille Lacs Ojibwe Indian tribe to retain their hunting and fishing rights guaranteed in an 1837 treaty with the United States. Topics include the ethnohistorical basis for the retention of rights, as well as examinations of the other treaties that followed the 1837 Treaty of St. Peters and the removal order of 1850. Also included is the 1999 decision of the Supreme Court (penned by Justice O'Connor) upholding hunting and fishing rights. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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