00:00:00:08	want to begin at the beginning and I
00:00:00:10	always draw a map of Wisconsin and I
00:00:00:12	keep getting worse each time that I that
00:00:00:15	I do drive here's the loop use lacrosse
00:00:00:18	then come this little community up here
00:00:00:20	which is the Red Cliff reservation so I
00:00:00:24	am a Lake Superior Chippewa my village
00:00:00:27	as a government-to-government
00:00:00:29	relationship with the United States
00:00:00:31	called sovereignty laws etc need to take
00:00:00:37	into account this concept of sovereignty
00:00:00:39	and the treaties of 1837 and 1842 were
00:00:00:45	basically deeds to real estate
00:00:00:47	transactions and I'm sure there was
00:00:00:49	something that a little bit more than
00:00:00:52	that going on
00:00:00:53	we won't debate that here when that land
00:00:00:56	was sold to the United States there were
00:00:00:59	easements on it the easement was that we
00:00:01:01	would always have access to hunting
00:00:01:04	fishing and gathering of the resources
00:00:01:06	of this way so we saw the surface the
00:00:01:09	United States says great policies
00:00:01:12	changed some some years they like
00:00:01:14	Indians some years they ignore them some
00:00:01:17	years they try and get rid of them so
00:00:01:18	back in 1974 here on the lacunae
00:00:01:24	reservation there was a lake but these
00:00:01:28	young brothers said that that perhaps
00:00:01:30	that the state really never had
00:00:01:32	authority to impose state gain law
00:00:01:34	against the Chippewa they would remember
00:00:01:37	the old grandpa stories grandpa told me
00:00:01:39	that his grandpa told him he was earned
00:00:01:42	when they sign those treaties and the
00:00:01:44	treaties are a license so what they did
00:00:01:48	was not unlike what Gandhi did was not
00:00:01:51	unlike what Rosa Parks did was not
00:00:01:53	unlike what anyone else did when they
00:00:01:56	kind of knew in their heart that this
00:00:01:58	law was not right they went across the
00:00:02:02	imaginary line here and began
00:00:02:04	spearfishing and of course they were	02:07
arrested cited for violating State game
00:00:02:10	life well to make that story shorter in
00:00:02:13	1983 a three-judge panel in Chicago
00:00:02:17	grandpa was right that these young
00:00:02:19	Tribble brothers had indeed stumble on
00:00:02:22	to lost rights they said we think that
00:00:02:27	the state has been given no
00:00:02:28	constitutional authority for them to
00:00:02:31	impose against the Chippewa who are the
00:00:02:33	legal inheritors of these easements
00:00:02:35	however when this court ruled they said
00:00:02:38	you know it's a long time since 1837 and
00:00:02:43	1842 so what we want you people to do to
00:00:02:46	go argue the scope of these rights there
00:00:02:50	is nothing in the treaties which say we
00:00:02:53	must use the technology that existed
00:00:02:58	when the treaties were signed
00:00:03:00	so the Chippewa can do anything in terms
00:00:03:03	of methods that are available that
00:00:03:05	doesn't threaten the resource what was
00:00:03:08	concluded was that wherever any of these
00:00:03:12	resources are harvested by the general
00:00:03:15	public the Chippewa could harvest their
00:00:03:17	portion of these resources wherever
00:00:03:20	anybody else can deal with we can do the
00:00:03:23	tribal government understood for the
00:00:03:25	first time this is right lost rights
00:00:03:29	rights that were never given that we're
00:00:03:31	never sold were never taken away but
00:00:03:34	we're just usurped by might by the state
00:00:03:38	of Wisconsin
00:00:03:57	you
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