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Fishing Rights
Treaty Rights and The Great Lakes Fishery
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This discussion of Native American fishing rights includes the following components:
Background on The Great Lakes Fishery and its Uses 1600-1966
Pre-Contact and Early European Period
Commercial Fishing in the Nineteenth Century
Decline and Collapse of Commercial Fishing
Restoring the Great Lakes Fishery
Re-Allocating the Great Lakes Fishery
Native American Treaty Rights Enforcement 1965-1999
Introduction
Legal Action
People v. LeBlanc
U.S. v. Michigan
U.S. v. Michigan; The Negotiated Settlement
Additional Information
People v. LeBlanc Text of Court Ruling
U.S. v. Michigan Text of Court Ruling
The majority of information found in this section is drawn from Robert Doherty, Disputed Waters: Native Americans & the Great Lakes Fishery (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990).
Background, 1600-1966
Treaty Enforcement, 1965-1999
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