1	00:00:02:15	00:00:05:00	I think it was 1984.
2	00:00:07:22	00:00:08:24	I can't remember
exactly.
3	00:00:08:26	00:00:10:21	We just came over here
4	00:00:10:23	00:00:12:24	because the treaties
were reaffirmed
5	00:00:12:26	00:00:15:05	and it opened the waters
6	00:00:15:07	00:00:17:15	to come down
to the Keweenaw Bay area.
7	00:00:24:22	00:00:27:01	I run Peterson's
Fish Market
8	00:00:27:03	00:00:29:20	and 4 Suns Fish & Chips
take-out.
9	00:00:29:22	00:00:31:23	I oversee everything,
but I can do everything.
10	00:00:31:25	00:00:33:08	I can prep
11	00:00:33:10	00:00:35:17	I can filet.
12	00:00:35:19	00:00:37:20	I can make nets,
I can mend nets.
13	00:00:37:22	00:00:40:08	I can do book work.
14	00:00:40:10	00:00:43:28	We're from the Red Cliff Band
of Lake Superior Chippewa.
15	00:00:48:18	00:00:51:23	When we got here, there was lots
of prejudice around here.
16	00:00:51:25	00:00:54:11	They did not want us
down here fishing.
17	00:00:54:13	00:00:57:16	They thought these fishing grounds belonged
18	00:00:57:18	00:00:59:19	just exclusively
to them.
19	00:00:59:21	00:01:02:10	The cable man would come into the homes to hook up the cable
20	00:01:02:12	00:01:04:08	and he'd say, you guys
don't belong here.
21	00:01:04:10	00:01:06:05	You'd better go back
to Wisconsin.
22	00:01:06:07	00:01:08:29	In school, they were telling
the younger kids
23	00:01:09:01	00:01:11:02	that those Wisconsin Indians don't belong
24	00:01:11:04	00:01:13:11	and that they
should go back home.
25	00:01:13:13	00:01:15:20	They have no right
to be here.
26	00:01:15:22	00:01:18:10	In school even.
27	00:01:20:15	00:01:23:06	They don't understand
about treaty fishing
28	00:01:23:08	00:01:25:08	you know,
what we gave up
29	00:01:25:10	00:01:30:12	for our rights to
continue doing this today.
30	00:01:30:14	00:01:33:08	All the land they're on
was ours.
31	00:01:33:10	00:01:36:19	In exchange for
shoving us off our land
32	00:01:36:21	00:01:38:22	putting us on these reservations
33	00:01:38:24	00:01:42:08	we get to hunt and fish
and gather rice
34	00:01:42:10	00:01:45:18	as long as
the sun rises and sets.
35	00:01:45:20	00:01:47:18	Well, that's forever.
36	00:01:51:05	00:01:53:18	All the boys started working
on the fish boats
37	00:01:53:20	00:01:57:10	when they were about 12.
38	00:01:57:12	00:01:59:29	It's a family tradition
for the Petersons.
39	00:02:00:03	00:02:03:13	Our oldest son, Chris,
he runs our fish boat.
40	00:02:03:15	00:02:05:12	Actually,
I like to call myself
41	00:02:05:14	00:02:08:02	the head
of acquisitions.
42	00:02:08:04	00:02:10:27	Whitefish
is our prime target.
43	00:02:10:29	00:02:13:22	Any trout we get
is incidental.
44	00:02:13:24	00:02:16:06	It's always a hunt,
east, west
45	00:02:16:08	00:02:18:10	north, south,
in shallow or out deeper.
46	00:02:18:12	00:02:20:14	You know, it's always
a constant hunt.
47	00:02:20:16	00:02:23:02	I've been lucky enough
to be able to to find some
48	00:02:23:04	00:02:25:02	really good
patches of fish.
49	00:02:25:04	00:02:27:02	You know,
you have to read
50	00:02:27:04	00:02:29:02	what the nets
are telling you.
51	00:02:29:04	00:02:31:21	Let's get as
much fish as we can
52	00:02:31:23	00:02:34:26	reset our gear
53	00:02:34:28	00:02:36:26	get back to the shop.
54	00:02:36:28	00:02:39:00	And hopefully they're not
completely out of fish.
55	00:02:43:10	00:02:46:17	We have a lot of people that
depend on a lot of fish.
56	00:02:46:19	00:02:49:25	I know that if I don't catch enough everybody suffers
57	00:02:49:27	00:02:54:03	not just the extended family
but all the employees.
58	00:02:54:05	00:02:58:27	I'm real proud that we provide
so many jobs for the area.
59	00:02:58:29	00:03:03:09	You know, when people are
getting laid off left and right
60	00:03:03:11	00:03:05:09	we're still adding jobs.
61	00:03:05:11	00:03:07:10	>> This December
it'll be 20 years
62	00:03:07:12	00:03:09:10	that we've been
in operation.
63	00:03:09:12	00:03:11:10	So it's
just been growing.
64	00:03:11:12	00:03:13:10	You know,
lots of long hours
65	00:03:13:12	00:03:15:10	lots of hard work.
66	00:03:15:12	00:03:17:24	All the people
that were against us
67	00:03:17:26	00:03:21:07	are now customers.
68	00:03:21:09	00:03:25:02	The cable man came in one day
and I said, we made it.
69	00:03:25:04	00:03:26:24	Here he comes,
buying our fish.
70	00:03:26:26	00:03:29:21	[laughing]