About 40 members of several Ojibwe communities in Minnesota staged a protest this week over their right to hunt, fish and harvest wild rice off the reservation, seeking to provoke a peaceful confrontation with law enforcement. The protesters, who have organized themselves as the 1855 Treaty Authority, intentionally violated Minnesota state laws and regulations that prohibit the Ojibwe from harvesting wild rice off-reservation.
The Ojibwe Take A Stand For Treaty Rights, Hoping To Defeat A Pipeline
Julian Brave NoiseCat, Huffington Post: Politics
Fri, 08/28/2015 - 4:27pm
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