Treaty rights controversyfiles. [199-]-1999.

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Treaty rights controversyfiles. [199-]-1999.

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Subject files, court documents, and photocopied researchmaterials (1837-1993) of a coalition of sportsmen's groups that opposed anout-of-court agreement reached between the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians andthe Minnesota Deparment of Natural Resources with regard to fishing, hunting, andgathering rights claimed by the Band under the terms of an 1837 treaty on cededlands located in east-central Minnesota (the Association argued that treaty rightsquestion should instead be settled in the courts).

Minnesota Historical Society

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Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians. Treaties.

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Ojibwa Indians. Treaties, etc. United States, 1837 July 29.

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Hole-in-the-Day, Chief, approximately 1800-1847

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Hunting and Angling Club (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Sternberg, Dick

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Carlson, Michael S. (Michael Scott).

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Grant, Bud

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Save Lake Mille Lacs Association.

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On July 29, 1837 the United States entered into a treaty with several bands of Chippewa Indians. Under the terms of the treaty the Indians ceded the northern one-third of present-day Wisconsin and 3,061,501 acres of land in what would later become Minnesota to the United States, and the United States guaranteed to the Indians certain hunting, fishing, and gathering rights on the ceded land. In August 1990 the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians and several of its members...

Minnesota. Department of Natural Resources

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