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Treaty Rights Quiz
1) After winning court cases about hunting and fishing rights, Indians were / were not able to fish and hunt without any regulation at all.
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The Indian nations involved regulate tribal hunting and fishing. These tribes have exercised their sovereignty to decide how their natural resources should be managed, and they also cooperate with state and U. S. government authorities to manage natural resources. Indians exercise hunting, fishing, and gathering rights in a limited fashion, subject to quotas, seasons, and other tribally-adopted regulations.
2) Indian use of traditional methods of hunting, fishing, and gathering and their exercise of off-reservation harvesting rights did / did not deplete fish and animal populations.
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Some game animals and fish species populations actually have become more stable due to the investment tribes have made in fish and game management as well as cooperative efforts between tribes, states, and the federal government.
3) Indian use of traditional methods of hunting and fishing and their exercise of off-reservation harvesting rights hurt / did not hurt sports fishing and sports tourism.
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In sports fishing, for example, Ojibwa take only a small fraction of all fish taken from the lakes. Non-Indian sport fishermen take the vast majority of the total number of fish allowed to be taken out of the lakes each year. For example, according to the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, the Indian harvest from 1980-89 was 6 percent of the total catch of walleye in the ceded territory, whereas sports fishers took 94 percent of the walleye harvest. Since that time, little has changed.