Fond du Lac Band plans to spear walleyes in treaty area

[amateurfishing]

not 100% positive but pretty sure. you know they have lobbyists, that's why we cannot get casino in mpls cause of mystic lake.

[walleye34]

Read up about how Minnesotans rounded up the natives, stuck them on boats near Fort Snelling and left them there to starve and die. Read about how our government snookered all of their land, continuously disregarded our treaties, and stuck them on land that we had wiped clean of wildlife. Read about how our government allowed traders to take most of the annuity payments from them, and rarely delivered any of the food or provisions outlined in the treaties. There are many books out there that document what our government and the people of Minnesota did to the tribes. It's not anything that can be disputed and should not be downplayed.

How is this any different than how I am treated by our own govt and my father and his father and his father. Our govt has been snookering me for years. Govt has been taking my hard earned money for and giving it to others!

[amateurfishing]

u get no protection from our armed forces? no relatively decent roads to drive on? puh--leez!! again with the me-me-me society....

[delcecchi]

[Raider4ever]

I don't know? MAYBE BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT DIDN'T ORDER YOUR ANCESTORS TO BE SYSTEMICALLY SLAUGHTERED LIKE CATTLE? Just a guess.

[CANOPY SAM]

Quote from amateur fishing:

"only if a treaty regarding such issue was "signed" by our government which it is not and only if said incident was ever proven. Until then, its a moot comparison."

Perhaps I've missed something, but if this statement were true, then wouldn't the native American's still control the America's?

[amateurfishing]

Perhaps I've missed something, but if this statement were true, then wouldn't the native American's still control the America's?

my comment was in reference to JBMasterAnglers summation of hypothetical situation of great grandfather being murdered by neighbor and he have to suffer for it or whatever that line was.

[Down Deep]

I just received yet another catalogue from Cabelas for fishing gear. Looking through it and seeing all the hi-tech line, rods, every lure imaginable,$2,500 H Birds looking down, sideways, linking with other units, GPS and Map technologies, Ipilots and countless other products all designed to attract and catch a fish. Then there is all the boats and and boat gear. I think we non-indians have a pretty good chance finding and catching a fish.

If the tribes have the right and want to spear a regulated number of walleyes then FINE.

I had to chuckle when I think of all the gear that is out there and many of us own and think we have to have when compared to using a pole and small boat, flashlight and spear. If you want to fish at night with a flash light there is always bow fishing.

[cementhead21]

My only issue with this is that is is at times called a tradition. If this is true, then why are they not useing traditional methods to do it? If you think they are not going to use all that high tech gear you mentioned; just go watch sometime