Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger reports that Mille Lacs Ojibwe leaders called for cooperation and friendship after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of treaty rights. The decision affirmed an 1837 agreement allowing eight tribes to fish and hunt without state regulation in east-central Minnesota.
The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe sued for treaty rights in 1990. The court case made for fractious relations between Indians and non-Indians around Lake Mille Lacs.