A Guide to Understanding Ojibwe Treaty Rights

A Guide to Understanding Ojibwe Treaty Rights contains pertinent treaties, discusses the nature of treaty rights, provides historical background on the treaty rights, and details tribal resource management and GLIFWC activities.

A Guide to Understanding Ojibwe Treaty Rights is available for free download through the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission.

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The cover of "A Guide to Understanding Ojibwe Treaty Rights": seven animals representing the members of an 1849 Ojibwe delegation to Washington, on a birchbark background.
The cover art of Ojibwe Treaty Rights is an illustration of the Symbolic Petition of the Ojibwe. In 1849, an Ojibwe delegation went to Washington, D.C. to petition President Millard Fillmore and Congress for a guarantee of a permanent home. The delegates carried this image with them on birchbark as a symbol of their petition. The seven animals represent members of the delegation, standing on Lake Superior and the rice lakes in Northern Wisconsin. The lines between the delegation members represent their connection to the rice lakes and their shared purpose and unity.

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About the Presenter and Honored Guest, and GLIFWC

Presenter and honored guest

Jenny Van Sickle

Jenny Van Sickle is the Outreach Specialist at the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission. Van Sickle is Tlingit, Athabascan and was born and raised in Sitka, Alaska.

Van Sickle graduated with honors from the University of Maine-Augusta where she earned her Associate of Science in Mental Health & Human Service and went on to complete her Bachelor of Science in Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.

Jenny has lived in Michigan, worked in Minnesota, and currently lives in Wisconsin. Van Sickle has been with the Commission just over 4 years.

-Bio from Jenny Van Sickle

Jenny Van Sickle Website

GLIFWC

Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission

The Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission is commonly known by its acronym, GLIFWC. Formed in 1984, GLIFWC represents eleven Ojibwe tribes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan who reserved hunting, fishing and gathering rights in the 1836, 1837, 1842, and 1854 Treaties with the United States government.

GLIFWC provides natural resource management expertise, conservation enforcement, legal and policy analysis, and public information services in support of the exercise of treaty rights during well-regulated, off-reservation seasons throughout the treaty ceded territories.

-GLIFWC Site

GLIFWC Website

Explore More

  1. Explore the Timeline of Anishinaabe Treaty Rights in the Northern Great Lakes from Wisconsin First Nations.
  2. Learn more from GLIFWC about treaty rights.
  3. View current tribal lands maps from Wisconsin First Nations.
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