State v. Gurnoe

A brief history of the Lake Superior Chippewa is necessary to our consideration of the important issues presented by these cases.1

*396 History of the Lake Swperior Chippewa.

The Chippewa originally lived on the northeast coast of the United States. They were gradually driven westward by the powerful Iroquois and Six Nations tribes of New York and Canada. The tribe settled in the northern part of what is now the state of Wisconsin, on the Apostle Islands. While living on the islands the tribe subsisted by fishing and agriculture. As the Sioux moved further west from Wisconsin in the mid-seventeenth…