This final piece in a three-part series explores what has happened since the Ojibwe people and U.S. government negotiated and signed the 1854 Treaty at La Pointe. There are many aspects of the treaty, but the article that has garnered the most attention states that the tribes can continue hunting and fishing on the ceded territory. These rights haven’t always... READ MORE >
Editor’s note: Natalie Rademacher is the granddaughter of Mary (Blackwell) Harrelson. She is a journalist who has worked for the Minneapolis Star & Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press and currently works at the Mankato Free Press. She is also a free-lance journalist who has agreed to write a three-part series about the 1854 Treaty, what came before, the treaty itself,... READ MORE >
