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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 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

 

Current News

HEALING CIRCLE RUN/WALK
July 13-19, 2013

     The 2013 Healing Circle Run/Walk continues to be a prayer for healing. During the 2001 Healing Journey Run, participants were told of a teaching on healing—"for a nation to heal, it must begin with the individual. As a person heals, then that person can help heal his/her family. As a family begins to heal, they can help heal their community. As communities heal, they can help the nation heal.  As nations heal, they can help Aki (the earth), our plant and animal relatives to heal." The 2013 Healing Circle Run/Walk is an opportunity for people to come together to pray for healing for themselves, their families, their communities, their nation, Aki, and our relatives.

      The 2013 Healing Circle Run/Walk will occur from July 13-19, 2013. The run/walk will connect eight Ojibwe reservations in northern Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota (see map) starting at the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation and ending at Lac du Flambeau on July 13 (Day 1), then ending at Mole Lake on July 14 (Day 2), at Lac Vieux Desert on July 15 (Day 3), at Bad River/Red Cliff on July 16 (Day 4), at Fond du Lac/Black Bear Casino on July 17 (Day 5), at St. Croix on July 18 (Day 6), and at Lac Courte Oreilles on July 19 (Day 7).               

     For more information or if you are interested in participating as a core runner, or having a group of runners from your reservation participate, please contact Jenny Krueger, Sue Lemieux, or Neil Kmiecik at GLIFWC at (715) 682-6619. All participants must assume personal liability, as well as responsibility for their own transportation and expenses.  

 

Now available:  Map and description of analysis GLIFWC recently completed to determine what streams could be filled given the provisions of AB1/SB1. In particular, the analysis looked at the effect of Amendment 9 to AB1/SB1 on the ability of an iron mining company to fill streams with mine waste. What GLIFWC found was that many upper watershed stream segments could be filled given the provisions of Amendment 9. Those streams are indicated in red on the attached map.

Notes and Methods Used in Development of Vulnerable Stream Analysis

Surface waters potentially filled by iron mining given provisions of AB1/SB1

 

Current Mazina'igan & Subscriptions
Outreach programs and classes

Camp Onji-Akiing registration form

 

Winter Camp

 

WI Trapper Education Class -Saturday, October 19, 2013 @ 9:00am-4:00pm & Sunday, October 20, 2013 @ 9:00am-4:00pm
Class Location: Sokaogon Chippewa Tribal Office

 

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

Great Lakes fishery
Inland fishery

Inland lakes mercury levels
Wildlife
Wild plants

Wild rice (Manoomin)
Environment

Enforcement
Invasive species
Language & culture

Mining

Forest Pests