Treaty rights controversy files, [199-]-1999.

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Save Lake Mille Lacs Association. Treaty rights controversy files, [199-]-1999.

Treaty rights controversy files, [199-]-1999.

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Subject files, court documents, and photocopied research materials (1837-1993) of a coalition of sportsmen's groups that opposed an out-of-court agreement reached between the Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources with regard to fishing, hunting, and gathering rights claimed by the Band under the terms of an 1837 treaty on ceded lands located in east-central Minnesota (the Association argued that treaty rights questions should instead be settled in the courts). The collection consists mostly of research materials: photocopies of archival documents, census records, treaties, and book pages gathered by the Association in the course of building its argument against affirmation of the Mille Lacs Band's treaty rights, which it claimed had been negated by subsequent treaties, presidential orders, congressional acts, and monetary payments to the Band. Other files in the collection include SLMLA membership lists, contemporary newspaper clippings, some correspondence with fellow sportsmen's organizations and others, position papers, a few press releases, bumper stickers, notes taken at SLMLA meetings, and court decisions and legal briefs. There is information about legal strategy, fund raising, various lawsuits associated with this issue, and a related treaty rights controversy in Wisconsin.

2.7 cu. ft. (3 boxes).

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