This disturbing study of the struggle of the Chippewa and Ottawa
Indians for traditional fishing rights in the Great Lakes raises
legal and public policy questions that extend far beyond that
region. Who owns common-property resources in the United States?
Who should manage those resources and for whose benefit? Should
Native Americans be accorded rights which supersede those of other
citizens and restrict their economic and recreational
opportunities? Can federal courts successfully resolve conflicts
over resource allocation? In the pages of this book Robert Doherty
follows the conflict from the 1960s, when Native Americans renewed
their struggle to maintain their treaty rights, through to the
confrontations that persist to this day. During the 1.970s the
Chippewas of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, through federal court
decisions, secured recognition of Native American rights to fish
without state control. An ugly campaign of protest ensued, with
vigilante groups and local police attempting to intimidate Chippewa
and Ottawa fishermen. With the help of the Reagan administration,
Michigan officials eventually circumvented the courts and regained
a large measure of their former power in a negotiated agreement.
Robert Doherty writes about these events with knowledge gained from
documentary and media sources and from firsthand experience. He has
been in the courts and on the beaches where confrontations took
place and has interviewed many of the participants on both sides.
For a while he even operated his own fishing enterprise. The result
of his involvement is a provocative book, not afraid to take the
side of what Doherty perceives as an oppressed minority group and
to make policy recommendations to correct injustice.
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