Ojibwe tribes in Wisconsin maintain a successful system of tribal law in the harvest and management of walleye, a species of considerable cultural importance. By doing so, they advance a right they had so feverishly protected in 19th-century treaties with the United States—the right to fish outside of reservation boundaries. Notwithstanding the deepest fears of the raucous protesters at 1980s northern Wisconsin boat landings, tribal overfishing and depletion of the walleye resource remain but a myth. Ogaa are safe. The Ojibwe people ensure it.
