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Larry Nesper is an American anthropologist specializing in the Ojibwe (a.k.a. Chippewa) people of northern Wisconsin. ... Nesper, Larry (2002) The Walleye War: ...
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 Band’s stories also take the audience through the American Indian Movement in the late 1960s as well as the struggle to protect the right to fish during the Walleye War.
Tribal members from Bad River and the other Lake Superior bands resumed their traditional practice of spear fishing, resulting in the Wisconsin Walleye War with recreational and sports fishermen. In 1996, the Ojibwe activists the Anishinaabe Ogitchida blocked a railroad shipment of sulfuric acid from crossing the reservation; it was destined ...
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1950. Minimum wage: $0.75 In 2025 money: $10.14 By 1950, the recession that followed World War II was over and America was entering an unprecedented era of prosperity and economic stability. That ...
Minnesota v. Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians, 526 U.S. 172 (1999), was a United States Supreme Court decision concerning the usufructuary rights of the Ojibwe (Chippewa) tribe to certain lands it had ceded to the federal government in 1837.
Northeast: Research since 1978. Kathleen J. Bragdon and Larry Nesper. Pages 480–498. The Smithsonian Handbook Project, 1965–2008. Section Introduction. Igor Krupnik. Page 499. The Beginnings, 1965–1971. Adrianna Link and Igor Krupnik. Pages 500–515. William Curtis Sturtevant, General Editor. William L. Merrill. Pages 516–530.