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The Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission is commonly known by its acronym, GLIFWC. Formed in 1984, GLIFWC represents eleven Ojibwe tribes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan who reserved hunting, fishing and gathering rights in the 1836, 1837, 1842, and 1854 Treaties with the United States government.

GLIFWC provides natural resource management expertise, conservation enforcement, legal and policy analysis, and public information services in support of the exercise of treaty rights during well-regulated, off-reservation seasons throughout the treaty ceded territories. 

GLIFWC is guided by its Board of Commissioners along with two standing committees, the Voigt Intertribal Task Force and the Great Lakes Fisheries Committee, which advise the Board on policy.

GLIFWC News & Upcoming Events

GLIFWC's Focus Areas

GLIFWC is actively involved in a broad spectrum of resource related activities aimed at protecting and enhancing the natural resources and habitat in the treaty-ceded territories while also infusing an Ojibwe perspective into its work.

• Affirming and implementing the rights
• Climate Change
• Enforcement
• Environment
• Forest Pests
• Great Lakes fishery
  • Report Ghost Net
  • Avoid The Trap
  • Report Tagged Fish
• Inland fishery
• Inland lakes mercury levels
• Invasive species
• Mining
• Model Food Code Project
• Ojibwe Language Resources
• Wildlife
• Wild plants
• Wild rice (Manoomin)
• Manoomin Harvest Information