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1854 Treaty Law Enforcement?

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Michwall2

07/11/2018 12:08PM

The ABC News article about the canoeists death on Sawbill Lake cited help by an 1854 Treaty Law Enforcement officer. I have never heard of this law enforcement jurisdiction. Can anyone with knowledge explain?

Thanks

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old-timer

Guest Paddler

07/11/2018 12:20PM

They may have been Grand Portage Tribal Members.

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SevenofNine

07/11/2018 12:45PM

They are Minnesota conservation officers.

More information here:
Officers

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thebotanyguy

07/11/2018 12:45PM

oldtimer is correct - they are Conservation Officers associated with Grand Portage:

1854 Treaty Authority

"Said one of these men, long past seventy years of age: 'I could carry, paddle, walk and sing with any man I ever saw. I have been twenty-four years a canoe man, and forty-one years in service; no portage was ever too long for me. Fifty songs could I sing. I have saved the lives of ten voyageurs. Have had twelve wives and six running dogs. I spent all my money in pleasure. Were I young again, I should spend my life the same way over. There is no life so happy as a voyageur's life!'"

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inspector13

07/11/2018 12:49PM

Yep, the second Treaty of La Pointe (Treaty of 1854) opened northeastern Minnesota to white settlement while creating reservations. Under this, and the First Treaty of La Pointe in 1842 (which covered northern Wisconsin and the UP), the signatory tribes did not lose their hunting and fishing rights on their former lands.

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Pinetree

07/11/2018 06:29PM

SevenofNine: "They are Minnesota conservation officers.

More information here:
Officers "

They are not Minnesota Conservation officers. They are Tribal Conservation officers and By Agreement they have dual authority to enforce the laws and carry out necessary functions.

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HighnDry

07/13/2018 07:59AM

Treaty Map

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awbrown

07/13/2018 02:44PM

“The 1854 Treaty Authority shall provide an Inter-Tribal natural resource program to ensure that the rights secured to member Indian tribes by treaties of the United States to hunt, fish and gather within the 1854 Ceded Territory shall be protected, preserved, and enhanced for the benefit of present and future member Indian tribes in a manner consistent with the character of such rights, through provision of services”

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HighnDry