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Wisconsin's fishing season opens Saturday, and for the first time in about 25 years I'm hearing fears we could see ugly anti-spearfishing activity at Northwoods boat landings.
Preliminary bag limits announced earlier this year for walleye caught in the Ceded Territory will not be printed in volume by the state and distributed but will be posted at public boat landings and available for download from the web, state fisheries officials say.
Revoking a $250,000 grant to help the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa build a cultural center is up for a vote.
The state Building Commission has delayed for at least a month any consideration of revoking a grant to help build a Native American cultural center.
Is it me, or are the Indian tribes in Wisconsin trying to push people's buttons around the state these days?
Today, in the State of the Tribes Address delivered to the Wisconsin State Legislature, specific reference was given to the Department of Natural Resources in connection to the recent tribal spearfishing declarations for walleye in northern Wisconsin and the statement the DNR previously issued in response to the declarations.
A Chippewa leader took Wisconsin officials to task Tuesday in the annual State of the Tribes address.
A Democratic state senator blasted a Republican colleague for threatening to reconsider a grant for a Wisconsin Chippewa tribe after the band announced it dramatically increased its walleye spearfishing goals, saying he has an '1800s mentality.'
The president of the Lac Du Flambeau Tribe says a Wisconsin lawmaker is overreacting by threatening to reconsider a state grant for a Native American cultural center.
A Wisconsin lawmaker says he may push to reconsider a $250,000 state grant for a Lac du Flambeau cultural center after it and other Chippewa bands dramatically raised their planned walleye take.
While walking into Dan Folz's DNR office in Oshkosh many Februarys ago, I heard the veteran biologist explain why warm weather and weak ice wouldn't cause the Department of Natural Resources to cancel Lake Winnebago's sturgeon spearing season.
The state Department of Natural Resources and the Chippewa tribes in northern Wisconsin are locking horns again, this time over the tribes' plan to dramatically increase the number of walleye harvested this spring.
The state Department of Natural Resources and the Chippewa tribes in northern Wisconsin are locking horns again, this time over the tribes' plan to dramatically increase the number of walleye harvested this spring.
Chippewa tribes in northern Wisconsin intend to spear a near-record number of walleyes during the annual spring harvest.
Wisconsin's strong walleye fishery and the tourism it produces are very important in Northern Wisconsin. As Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources, sustaining our fishery is foremost in my priorities when I negotiate annual Tribal harvests.
Anglers headed to the Northwoods for the Memorial Day weekend got some good news when the Department of Natural Resources increased daily walleye bag limits on 384 lakes, effective Friday.
The "Walleye Wars" are in the past, but the Northwoods still feels the effects of the state's early-'90s decision to permit spearfishing by American Indians.
The air temperature hovered near freezing one April night as Jeff Williams stood in the bow of a 12-foot Alumacraft boat.
No two people were more recognized for their roles in the opposition of spearfishing than Larry Peterson and Dean Crist.
Indian spearfishing drew national attention in its early years, and each spring from 1985 to 1990, I packed my bags and cameras and spent much of April in Minocqua, covering it for the Wausau Daily Herald.
SPRINGSTEAD -- The process of spearfishing is as simple as it sounds: Boys, young adults and grown men perch in boats and pluck walleyes from the water with 10-foot barbed spears.
Kevin Thompson remembers when trucks and boat trailers lined the streets outside Minocqua-area businesses during opening fishing weekend. But traffic at his bait shop on opening day 2011 was by no means frenetic, and Thompson said there's a simple reason -- fewer fishermen.
Images from some of the protests that occurred during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Warning: Some images contain racial slurs that some readers may find offensive.
1837: Chippewa Indians cede much of northern Wisconsin to the United States in return for annual payments of $30,000 for 20 years and hunting, fishing and gathering rights in the ceded territory.
» The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, commonly known as GLIFWC, was formed in 1984 after a federal court ruled that treaties signed in the 1800s give Ojibwe tribes, also known as Chippewa, the right to hunt, fish and gather rice off their reservations.
Click on each lake to review quota and harvest totals for 2010.
Photographer Xai Kha visited the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage with members of the Lac du Flambeau tribe while spearfishing.
Photographer Xai Kha visited the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage with members of the Lac du Flambeau tribe while spearfishing.
I admit the impact of spearfishing crossed my mind as I sat in a boat on opening weekend with my 13-year-old son and father-in-law, pulling up the occasional footlong walleye and catching only one that was legal (and barely so).
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