Non-Indians take the vast majority of game on the White Earth reservation.

Evidence

Non-Indians dominate hunting and fishing on reservation lands. Non-Indians on the White Earth reservation harvest roughly twice as many deer as the Indian people on the reservation. Inside the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge, white deer hunters took nine times more deer than tribal members. Fishing is not much different. The White Earth Reservation Biology Department reported, for instance, that tribal members took just 3.3 percent of the walleye catch at one major reservation fishing lake. The remaining walleyes were taken by non-Indian fishers. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 650

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  • XREF: Directly answers chapter 4’s earlier point that Canada banned Innu hunting while settlers hunted freely — same inverted accusation pattern. — connects to: Wind destroys and lumber ‘progresses,’ though both fell the same trees. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 662
  • SHARE: Send to a fishing buddy familiar with Minnesota walleye lakes — the 3.3% tribal take vs the panic over spearing is revelatory.