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The Wisconsin Walleye War became the name for late 20th-century events in Wisconsin in protest of Ojibwe (Chippewa) hunting and fishing rights. In a 1975 case, the tribes challenged state efforts to regulate their hunting and fishing off the reservations, based on their rights in the treaties of St. Peters (1837) and La Pointe (1842).
In 1988, a US District Court ruled that the Ojibwe had treaty fishing rights to conduct traditional fishing off reservation during the spawning season of walleye.Protests in the following years became violent as sports fishermen protested what they saw as an unfair advantage, in what became known as the Wisconsin Walleye War.
In Wisconsin, several Ojibwe bands were battling to stop sulfide mining at the proposed Crandon mine with newfound political power stemming from the Walleye War. In 1995 two Bad River tribal members, Lawrence "Butch" Stone and Alan "Buster" Couture, began having dreams that an environmental disaster was coming to the Bad River Reservation.
A new documentary chronicles a Wisconsin’s tribe's ongoing fight to protect Lake Superior for future generations. “Bad River” shows the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s long ...
The 2024-25 Wisconsin fishing regulations include a host of changes, including a daily bag limit of three walleyes on inland waters. ... Chief among them is a daily bag limit of three walleye on ...
The St. Croix and Sokaogon bands left the negotiations in protest and were excluded from the agreement. [ 35 ] A small tract of land was also set aside for Kechewaishke and his family at Buffalo Bay on the mainland across from Madeline Island at a place called Miskwaabikong (red rocks or cliffs).
State-level National Guard efforts to intervene during the Kenosha, Wisc. protests began before the Trump administration got involved. At Wisconsin rally, Trump repeats ridiculous claim that he ...
Category: Indigenous rights protests. 2 languages. ... Wisconsin Walleye War This page was last edited on 31 August 2020, at 10:45 (UTC). ...