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 00:00:03:59 [Music]