The Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission

GLIFWC Website

For today's activity we will explore current issues faced by the Ojibwe tribes (also called in some documents Chippewa) in the Great Lakes region who are asserting their treaty rights after the Boldt and Voight decisions granting them half of the "safe harvest" of hunting, fishing and gathering in the ceded territories. We will focus on four of the culturally significant resources that are protected, managed and/or taken by tribal members: walleye, wild rice, forest timber and wolves. You will emphasize differences in the attitudes of tribal governments, resource agencies, and tribal members in the cultural significance and management of these plants and animals, and the resultant differences in ecosystem services such as biodiversity and resiliency to climate change in tribal managed vs. state and federally managed ecosystems and populations.

You will work in teams in breakout rooms to create 10 slides in a shared Google Slide presentation, and then you will present to the entire class in the main Zoom room. Please be respectful of the work of your classmates - that means that you need to be careful about reformatting or changing themes, since you want to make sure to limit changes to only your slides. After you present your slides to the class we will have a discussion about how your case studies fit together to give us a perspective on the holistic management style and cultural considerations incorporated into tribal management.

Use the links provided below as a starting point. You will have limited time for research, so make sure you work efficiently and are focused on a few significant issues rather than trying to cover everything about a topic. Provide links to all of your sources in the speaker's notes for each slide. Whenever possible provide visuals to enhance your slides. If you wish to include a YouTube, put the link in the speaker's notes and we will embed it in the website; we will not have time to show YouTubes during your presentation but they will be an excellent addition to the class webpage.

Above you will find an interactive map provided by GLIFWC; feel free to include screenshots of the map in your slides.

Click here to go to the group slide presentation and find your groups slides. You will need to sign into your Google Account to edit (click on the Create Account link if you do not have a Google Account).

Breakout Room #1 Walleye Fishery

The Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission

CEDED TERRITORY SAFE AND TRIBAL HARVEST

Walleye fish populations are in decline

Mercury contamination

Tribal spearfishers continue practice for food sovereignty, culture despite claims of harassment in northern Wisconsin

Indigenous harvest rights still under attack in the upper Great Lakes

Wisconsin tribes begin walleye spearing as state officials warn about harassment

Breakout Room #2 Wild Rice

ECOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF WILD RICE

While the Wild Rice Still Grows, a Native Culture Struggles to Survive

Wild Rice Harvest Tradition Passed Down To Youth

Manoomin: Climate Change Impacts & Conservation

Tribal members and scientists team up to figure out why Wisconsin's wild rice population is declining

Breakout Room #3 Forestry

Inter Tribal Timber Council

Tribal forests in Wisconsin are more diverse, sustainable

'Our spiritual home': Wisconsin's pristine Menominee Forest a model for sustainable living, logging

MTE ForestryFirst stewards: ecological outcomes of forest and wildlife stewardship by indigenous peoples of Wisconsin, USA

Tribal Forests More Diverse, Sustainable Than Surrounding Forests

Breakout Room #4 Wolves

Wisconsin tribes sue to stop November wolf hunt

Ojibwe tribes have claimed 50% of wolf quota and are pushing for a reduction in the overall number

Several Native American tribes sue Wisconsin over "unlawful" wolf hunting

Wisconsin officials double down on disastrous wolf policy

6 tribes sue Wisconsin to try to stop November wolf hunt

Six Ojibwe tribes claim Wisconsin wolf hunt violates treaty rights