Post by blackcrowheart on Sept 10, 2006 21:03:40 GMT -5
Walleye Warriors: The Chippewa Treaty Rights Story
By Rick Whaley and Walt Bresette. Each spring when the ice clears, the Anishinabe (Chippewa) harvest fish from the lakes of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Their ancient subsistence fishing and hunting tradition is protected by treaties and reinforced by Federal Court rulings, but for years they were met by stones, racial epithets, and death threats hurled by local sports fishermen, resort and cottage owners, and other white neighbors. Walleye Warriors tells the exciting story of how a multi-race and class alliance of Anishinabe, local residents, and activists defused these dramatic and tense confrontations by witnessing and documenting them. The walleye warriors and their supporters were successful at protecting Chippewa sovereignty despite the attempted use of racism, economic threats, and government manipulations. Their victorious alliance is continuing the struggle for environmental justice and cultural diversity by striving to stop corporate attempts to mine - and so destroy - northern Wisconsin. "Walleye Warriors is an in-depth must-read about a troubled time in Wisconsin history. This is a piece of history that college students have never seen. Now they can." -- Sharon Metz, founder of Honor Our Neighbors Origins and Rights (HONOR), a human rights group focusing on Native issues.
272 pages Paperback $25.00
www.native-books.com/Social_justice/social_016.html
By Rick Whaley and Walt Bresette. Each spring when the ice clears, the Anishinabe (Chippewa) harvest fish from the lakes of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Their ancient subsistence fishing and hunting tradition is protected by treaties and reinforced by Federal Court rulings, but for years they were met by stones, racial epithets, and death threats hurled by local sports fishermen, resort and cottage owners, and other white neighbors. Walleye Warriors tells the exciting story of how a multi-race and class alliance of Anishinabe, local residents, and activists defused these dramatic and tense confrontations by witnessing and documenting them. The walleye warriors and their supporters were successful at protecting Chippewa sovereignty despite the attempted use of racism, economic threats, and government manipulations. Their victorious alliance is continuing the struggle for environmental justice and cultural diversity by striving to stop corporate attempts to mine - and so destroy - northern Wisconsin. "Walleye Warriors is an in-depth must-read about a troubled time in Wisconsin history. This is a piece of history that college students have never seen. Now they can." -- Sharon Metz, founder of Honor Our Neighbors Origins and Rights (HONOR), a human rights group focusing on Native issues.
272 pages Paperback $25.00
www.native-books.com/Social_justice/social_016.html