What happened in the other states that attempted to resolve tribal natural resource issues?
After a large number of court cases, including many reviews by the U.S. Supreme Court, the fish and game resources of many states, including Wisconsin, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon and Idaho, have been allocated approximately 50 percent to Tribal users and 50 percent to non-Tribal users. (The 1836 treaty language does differ from many of the other treaties at issue in those cases, however.) In all cases, there were negotiations between the states and Tribes with direction from the courts to establish management procedures to protect the natural resources and share the harvest. In several of the states, even though the Tribes have a right to harvest up to 50 percent of the safe harvest, the actual take is much less.
