With all of the depressing Indian Law cases that we read, it is always nice to remember the victories.

This is taken from the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission’s Facebook page:

Honoring Treaty Day 2014

A unique Ojibwe holiday, GLIFWC bands established Treaty Day following the US Supreme Court ruling in the Minnesota v. Mille Lacs case. That decision, issued 15 years ago today, found that reserved rights in the Minnesota 1837 ceded territory continued to exist—a ruling that supported earlier court decrees on other ceded lands and waters.

To the treaty-era Ojibwe headmen, tribal harvesters (across the centuries), legal experts, caretakers of treaty resources, and today’s men and women that lead tribes into the 21st Century: Chi Miigwech! COR