Turtle Talk

From the Detroit Free Press: “Some people argue that Indians who exercise their treaty rights should be required to use only the fishing and hunting gear available in 1836. But the treaty doesn’t say that, and if you read histories of northern Michigan in the 1830s, when Sault Ste. Marie was a much bigger town than Detroit, you’ll realize that the Indians already had a fairly substantial commercial net fishery going to supply the needs of their tribesmen and the white settlers.”