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  • Red Lake Nation Fishery Capitalizes on Wild-Caught Walleye

    Lee Allen, Indian Country Today|Jun 19, 2012

    “Fish have always been a part of our tribe. Going back several hundred years, they’ve been one of our main foods,” says Ojibwa tribal member Bill May, general manager of the Red Lake Nation Fishery in northern Minnesota. And it was his tribe, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, that spearheaded the effort to bring the culturally vital walleye back from the brink of extinction to its healthy status today. Beginning in 1917, the now 11,000-member tribe has banded together to market walle...