1. Walking the Rez Rd
By Jim Northrup
Jim Northrup
Born 1943 (69 years old)
Combat Marine
Writing helped coping PSTD

2. Barbed thoughts
By Jim Northrup •
• Indigenous fishing rights have I am Anishinaabe,
been an issue since the 19th in the spring we spear fish
rez government wishes we wouldn't
century. it makes some white people mad.
That's par for the course
• 1st Treaty was in Wisconsin they've been mad at us
since they got here,
• Natives ceded land rights but rednecks try to stop us
with threats, gunfire, and bombs.
not hunting and gathering The state attempts a pay out
rights. thinking cash can do anything.
Were valuable to the media
• Unlawful enforcement of we fill their columns and empty air
good people witness for us.
state game and fishing by the We thank Munido for fish, for life,
as we praise our grandfathers
Wisconsin Government began and their generational wisdom.
in 1889 Spearing is more than a treaty
right-it`s an eating right.
• Court decision in 1983 We do what has been done since
there have been Anishinaabe.
enforced the former treaties. I am one of them.
I spear fish.