General Treaty Exercise Information

Tribal ID: Members must carry their tribal ID at all times while exercising treaty harvest activities.

Non-Member Assistance: 

• Only a member's spouse, parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, or siblings may assist a member in treaty harvest activities.
• Non-member assistance is limited to operation of the boat during spearing; placing or lifting a net; placing or lifting a setline, or set or bank pole (in WI only); setting or lifting lines during ice fishing; all hunting activities except the actual use of a firearm, bow and arrow, or crossbow; while night hunting deer (WI only) acting as a spotter and shining the established safe zone of fire; all trapping activities except the setting or placement of traps and snares; all wild rice harvesting activities; all miscellaneous forest plant harvesting activities except the actual uprooting of the plant or the removal of plants parts; all activities except the actual use of a device to kill an animal when harvesting clams (in WI), crayfish, turtles, frogs (in MN), mussels (in MN) and unprotected species.

Hunter Safety Education Requirements:

• Harvesters born on or after January 1, 1977 (WI) or January 1, 1980 (MN), must successfully complete a hunter education and firearm safety course before being issued any hunting permit.
• Qualifying courses are offered by tribes and states or provinces of Canada which provide courses substantially similar to the Tribe's hunter safety course; basic training in the U.S. Armed Forces substitutes for hunter safety course.
• Members who do not have hunter safety education and want to try hunting, may participate in a mentored hunting program. Under the mentored hunting program, members without a hunter's safety education card (age 10+ years old), may hunt with a mentor as long as both the mentor and mentee possess a valid permit, the mentor meets the requirements for acting as a mentor and remains within arms-length of the mentee-hunter at all times while acting as a mentor, and only one gun is possessed between them. 

Vehicle Access:

• Members may use a GLIFWC Vehicle Hang Tag as proof of fee waiver at day use sites and parking locations in the Ceded Territory National Forests and at Wisconsin state vehicle admission areas.
• Hang Tags may obtained from GLIFWC.
• The GLIFWC Hang Tag must display the member's unique NAGFA ID number and must be hung on the rear-view mirror of the vehicle with the ID number facing outward.

Religious or Ceremonial Harvest:

• A Tribe may issue a special permit to a member for religious or ceremonial harvest, that may not be otherwise permitted through an established season.
• Ceremonial harvest permits must be obtained directly from the tribal conservation department, and the tribe must take into account the biological impact of the harvest prior to issuing the permit.
• Members must comply with all terms and conditions of a ceremonial harvest permit.

Sharing of Permits or Tags:

• Except where specifically authorized (i.e. group deer hunting, group elk hunting, group bear hunting, group netting, or group gathering), no member may lend, share, give, sell, barter or trade, or offer to lend, share, give, sell, barter or trade a permit or tag to another person.

Shining: 

• Shining while in possession of a weapon is generally prohibited, except when lawfully night hunting deer, lawfully hunting raccoon, fox, and unprotected small game species, or lawfully spearing.
• Night hunting regulations for deer can be found on the Waawaashkeshi harvest page. Shining regulations for hunting raccoon, fox and unprotected species can be found on the Awesiinyensag harvest page.