GLIFWC

2013 Healing Circle Run/Walk, July 13-19, 2013

Victoria Sweet

From the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission:

The 2013 Healing Circle Run/Walk will occur from July 13-19, 2013. The run/walk will connect eight Ojibwe reservations in northern Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota (see map) starting at the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation and ending at Lac du Flambeau on July 13 (Day 1), then ending at Mole Lake on July 14 (Day 2), at Lac Vieux Desert on July 15 (Day 3), at Bad River/Red Cliff on July 16 (Day 4), at Fond du Lac/Black Bear Casino on July 17 (Day 5), at St. Croix on July 18 (Day 6), and at Lac Courte Oreilles on July 19 (Day 7).

For more information or if you are interested in participating as a core runner, or having a group of runners from your reservation participate, please contact Jenny Krueger, Sue Lemieux, or Neil Kmiecik at GLIFWC at (715) 682-6619. All participants must assume personal liability, as well as responsibility for their own transportation and expenses.

Map.

GLIFWC site.

I participated in this event for a few days in 2011 and had a wonderful experience. Participants range from young children to elders and both walkers and runners. Some people go for only one day and others for the whole week. I hope to join this event again one of these summers.

GLIFWC Cross-Deputized in Wisconsin

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

http://www.businessnorth.com/kuws.asp?RID=2068

News From 91.3 KUWS
New law gives tribal deputies off-reservation power

Story posted Wed. 11:48 a.m.

11/14/2007

  

In what’s being hailed as equality between state and tribal law officers, Governor Jim Doyle signed a bill that would equalize the power of law enforcement officers. Mike Simonson reports.

The new law gives deputies and wardens of the Great Lakes Indian and Wildlife Commission the same rights as other Wisconsin law enforcement officers. GLIFWC Director Jim Zorn says his officers are often first responders in emergencies, even off the reservation in the ceded territories of northern Wisconsin.

“The Chai Vang incident was one instance where our officers happened to be one of the first officers to arrive. There’ve been other situations where we’ve come across traffic accidents or helped take drunk drivers off the road or similar circumstances.” Zorn says the bill is proof that the state and tribes have come a long way since violence over treaty rights in the late 1980’s.

“The boat landings when tribal members were attempting to exercise their fishing rights. This bill is just one more step in the state of Wisconsin moving forward between the state and the tribes in the treaty rights arena. It’s an important recognition that GLIFWC’s officers are just as important as any other officers in the state.” Zorn says tribal officers have the same training requirements as off-reservation peace officers.