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A Chippewa Case: resource control and self-determination
Cultural survival quarterly • 11 (2) • Published In 1987 • Pages: 39-42
By: Handrick, Philip.
Abstract
This is a short article discussing contradictions in the 1972 Indian Self-Determination Act, which resulted in the wholesale slaughter of the wall-eye breeding population in Chiquamegon Bay, Wisconsin. Wall-eye are a staple of the local Bad River Band of Chippewa. The Indian Self-Determination Act gave Indians responsibilities to regulate local resources and in 1974 the Bad River Band established a fish hatchery for wall-eye. However, the right to protect this resource within the reservation on non-Indian property or outside the reservation were circumvented by state ordinances limiting native landrights. Frustrated by the band administration's inability to protect the wall-eye, some band members decided to get all the wall-eye they could, resulting in the destruction of half the breeding population in 1982. Since then, rulings have favored the Bad River Band's control of resources both on and off the reservation.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnographer
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field Date
- 1982-1987
- Coverage Date
- 1974-1987
- Coverage Place
- Twentieth Century Ojibwa, Chequamegon Bay, Wisconsin, United States
- Notes
- Philip Handrick
- LCCN
- 8964755
- LCSH
- Ojibwa Indians