WI Resources and Documents

Here is a compilation of ​​​​​​​various legal documents and permits relating to line 5 in Wisconsin. Also, see events to stay up to date on legal proceedings.

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Treaties Resources

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Articles:

  • View entire GLFWIC StoryMap – Pipelines in the Ceded Territories
  • Indian Country Media Today brief introduction on the history of Treaty Rights
  • Introduction to Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission
    • The long history of asserting treaty rights as a strategy for maintaining the rhythms and textures of traditional Ojibwe life.
  • GLIFWC short summary and videos on the campaigns of white violence during the 1980s and 1990s against Ojibwe fishing practices.
  • Resource on Ojibwe and Dakota treaties
  • Histories of Indigenous Sovereignty in Action: What is it and Why Does it Matter?
    • “Sovereignty” is a Eurocentric term, referring to the modern nation state and its forms of political authority. Indigenous “sovereignty” refers to a broader range of concepts and practices of self-governance and systems of reciprocal relations. Two key aspects here: Indigenous forms of sovereignty are understood as inherent, not granted by an external power (by Euro-american colonial systems and laws), as well as lived (not emanating from documents and static laws) through a broad range of practices that constitute and enact relations of reciprocity. Asserting treaty rights is a strategy in this broader framework.
  • Treaty Stories: Reclaiming the Unbroken History of Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe SovereigntyOreilles Ojibwe Sovereignty
    • “Ojibwe leaders negotiated treaties with the United States amid nineteenth-century encroachments on their territory. These treaties, which were more than tools of dispossession, enfolded and extended aadizookanag (sacred stories) in agreements that embodied Ojibwe relationships with land, language, sacred history, ceremony, and kin. Federal and state policy makers, fueled by the desire for Indian land and resources, attempted to unravel these relationships in the decades that followed. By continuing to live out through labor and stories their relationships with the woods, waters, and manoomin (wild rice) beds of Anishinaabewaki, the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibweg kept their treaties and their sovereignty alive”.
  • Interview with Michael Jogn Witgen
  • Nenabozho Goes Fishing: A Sovereignty Story
    • “We draw on the experiences of the Lake Superior and Mississippi Bands of Ojibwe for examples of how sovereignty has been debated and defined, from treaty-making practices establishing a political relationship with the United States to subsequent struggles for recognition of Ojibwe sovereign authority accorded in those same treaties. We find that the courts and Congress have oscillated between protecting and diminishing Indigenous nations’ ability to exercise sovereignty. We argue for a return to the relational paradigm used by the Ojibwe in their treaty-making as a remedy for the damage done by the courts and by Congress. Rather than a rights-based approach to sovereignty, a relational paradigm foregrounds responsibilities to one another and to creation, which sustains us all”.
  • Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination
    • Introduction from this important volume edited by Joanne Barker, which includes many different ideas and understandings of “sovereignty” from Indigenous scholars, thinkers, community members and struggles. From the introduction: “Sovereignty carries the horrible stench of colonialism.It is incomplete,i naccurate, and troubled.But it has also been rearticulated to mean altogether different things by indigenous peoples.In its link to concepts of self-determination and self-government, it insists ont he recognition of inherent rights to the respect for political affiliations that are historical and located and for the unique cultural identities that continue to find meaning in those histories and relations.”

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Other Legal Documents

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Further Resources:

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