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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).
The 2024-25 Wisconsin fishing regulations include a host of changes, ... The rule was designed to provide certainty for sport anglers in the area where tribal spearing takes place and, depending ...
In this week's First Nations Wisconsin newsletter, we look at how spearfishing is at the heart of the issue of Indigenous sovereignty in Wisconsin. Tribal spearfishing is a symbol of Indigenous ...
The annual ice spearing camp on the Mole Lake Reservation in northern Wisconsin was started by elders as a way to revitalize their Ojibwe heritage. Tribal members in Wisconsin spear fish through ...
The State of Wisconsin argued that Native Americans' lives were in danger from protesters if they continued spearfishing. [ 56 ] In 1989, federal judge Barbara Crabb ruled against the Thompson Administration's legal efforts.
Spearfishing is intensively managed throughout the world. The use of SCUBA equipment for spearfishing is now illegal in many parts of the world, although it remains legal and popular within many parts of the United States. Within the EU, the use of SCUBA for spearfishing is now illegal, in addition to a ban on spearfishing at night. [26]
Traditional Indigenous ice spearfishing, which inspired sturgeon spearing season on Lake Winnebago, is still practiced in northern Wisconsin. ‘One day, it will be a lost art.’
Crandon mine was a mine proposed for northeastern Wisconsin, USA.It was to be situated near the town of Crandon and the Mole Lake Ojibwe Reservation in Forest County.The mine was the center of a multi-decade political and regulatory battle between environmentalists, American Indian tribes, sportfishing groups, and the State of Wisconsin and several large mining corporations.