Marge Anderson, chief executive of the Mille Lacs Ojibwe Band, comments on treaty rights. She says her nation has waited a long time for the word "sovereign" to gain meaning.
In 1998, Native Americans will take up to forty thousand pounds of walleye on one of the state's most popular fisheries, Lake Mille Lacs. It's the first time Indian tribes will be able to take significant numbers of fish under the terms of a restored 1837 treaty.
This audio was part of Mainstreet Radio’s look at treaty rights and other issues of native sovereignty.