My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks by Brenda J. Child

Author:Brenda J. Child
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-87351-938-0
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2014-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Dennis sent copies of his letter to Beltrami and Becker County representatives and also to the commissioner of Indian Affairs in Washington, DC. In other letters to Washington, Dennis expressed his view that the land sale and other purchases were “caused by some feeling in opposition to the Indians of Minnesota and particularly the Red Lake Band.”45

The Red Lake agent, Raymond H. Bitney, agreed with the tribe’s lawyer about restoring the missing portions of Upper Red Lake, calling for the tribe’s exclusive management of the entire lake as well as a sensible resolution to issues involving the reservation fishery. Pointing out that the fishery buildings at Redby were constructed during wartime and years when the state of Minnesota supervised the fishing, he wrote to tribal leader Peter Graves:

I have been wondering if this is not a very opportune time for the Indians to request that the State of Minnesota grant to them that portion of Red Lake in the northern end of it which was taken away from them in the Treaty of 1889 and should be restored to them, and in addition to that portion of Upper Red Lake which is not inside the shore of the lake be given to the Indians and become part of their reservation. In addition to the exclusive control of the lake and the restoration of the lake to the reservation, it would be well to ask the State of Minnesota to turn over to the Red Lake Cooperative Fisheries Association or to the Red Lake tribe the fisheries building, fisheries lease, and the hatchery at Redby, with all the appurtenances and equipment and the assignment of the lease on the Red Lake townsite to the Red Lake Fisheries Association or the Red Lake tribe. This should clear up for all time the present squabble that is going on between the State of Minnesota Conservation Department and the Red Lake Band of Chippewas.46

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