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 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]"