For those of us that rely on Mille Lacs Lake to put food on our table, life has become a real challenge for survival. It's time we stand up and declare our rights as the true owners of our waters before we get pushed into obscurity by blond indians from Wisconsin, idiotic DNR regulations and NOW our worst nightmare EVER, the federal government. They have declared our Mille Lacs a federally navagable waterway. What kind of s__t-fer-brains can think with whatever they could mistakenly call a brain that we could navigate the Rum River with a boat? There's a dam there, people....... To prove me wrong, I hereby challenge the strongest, most capable person (or group of people) to drive a 52 foot launch from Mille Lacs Lake to Louisiana. If someone could do that, I'll shut up and never snivel about the subject again, but I want to be there when they portage that dam........................................
Blond Indians from Wisc..... do they know how dumb they look netting.. saying it's their heritage ??? Some people will say anyting to justify their selfish actions....
Ha! Yeah, Glen, maybe the blond indian can portage the boat! I heard the blond ones are the real warriors of the bunch, but they have a hard time with too many fish on board, so they gotta throw 'em somewhere......................................too bad it was on Denny's land.
want to stop the neting its easy stop people from going to the casino not just mille lace but all the casino's if you can do that they will be hurting for money so bad they will stop the netting so heres the hard part ho do you stop people from going to the casino
Get the State of MN to legalize gaming state wide. Put a Casino everywhere there is an Indian Casino. Given the opportunity people would more than likely go where the money would best serve the people of Minnesota.
want to stop the neting its easy stop people from going to the casino not just mille lace but all the casino's if you can do that they will be hurting for money so bad they will stop the netting so heres the hard part ho do you stop people from going to the casino
yea i read about this pawlenty said in a conference briefing about what the bands said that they will be jailed and fined by the DNR if they pursue this so i wouldnt worry too much. but it all comes back to the just trying to get under our skin. we sit here triple checking our tackle boxes in anticipation and have to sit and read these types of articles the last few months!
The original inhabitants of Minnesota weren't the Ojibwe (or the Chippewa). The Souix originally inhabited all of Minnesota. The peaceful Souix were attacked and eventually pushed out of the state by the warlike Ojibwe in the late 1700s and early 1800s. If anyone traditionally fished and hunted Minnesota, it was the Souix, not the tribes that are squawking so loudly, now. The Ojibwe and Chippewa are terrorists and ruining our lakes, the way the ruined all their hunting grounds in their push westward. They do not have a proud heritage (like the Souix). They are murderers and users that have no regard for this land as evidenced by the fish gut dumping on our land. We need to stop them from destroying our fishing (like they did to Leech and Red) Sorry, but it's the truth!
Wow, Lots of P&M'n about "what can we do to stop the indians..." For all that is being complained about after the fact, where the hell were all of you and your support dollars when PERM and the land owners were fighting this whole thing when it all started? Yeah, noone likes what is going on. Unless you have a pile of money to fight the federal government... you will continue to see and complain about the same thing each and every year until the lake is taken over by the indians or they kill it like Red Lake.
Sorry about the rant, but I have listened to this ever since it started with the original land owners. We spent piles of money to fight federally funded indians & lost the battle... Change the federal government or get used it.
Just to reply to you, there LBJ...... I was fishing the lake, going to meetings listening to Joe Karpens, donating alot of money (and time) to the cause (I still have my P.E.R.M. shirt), boycotting the casino, writing senators and congressmen, talking to people like you and everything else I could think of to help P.E.R.M. (I'm 56 and I've been fishing the lake since I was 5). I've seen alot of efforts fail in the fight over the years, but giving up because we lost a stupid court case, due to Bud and his bunch turning down an agreement that could have saved the lake, isn't how I choose to deal with the problem. How about you? By the way, we COULD get the case back into court if we can prove that they aren't keeping to the treaty. (By the way, I'm one of the landowners that you were talking about)
There is a thread going over on Lakestatesfishing.com reguarding the netting issues. One thread is now going that may lead to a townhall meeting with Mike Jungbauer Minnesota State Senator ! Thats what is being planned currently. Please check it out......
You can never say never with this netting deal. Someday we will find someone in the senate that will listen to the concerns. Maybe that person will be Mike Jungbauer?
George...Jason anyone from Hunters Point interested in attending this round table / townhall meeting? Might be a great platform to share your business concern's
I would agree with getting as many business owners as possible there as well. Seems like $$ is the only thing some of these people listen to. Decrease business equals decreased tax dollars.
So with all the P & M'ing.... do you mean to tell me more dollars would have resulted in a different outcome from the Supreme Court on this issue ??? How much more did we need back then ???
-- Edited by Glen Ertl on Thursday 6th of May 2010 08:17:42 AM
Yep, "P&M"ing is what the tribes have been doin' for years and with a few casino bucks they got what they wanted. It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease. Maybe if we all can become a big enough squeaky wheel, the driver will get some grease for a couple of bucks before the wheels fall off the car, metaphorically speaking......... (It's actually a boat) There's a petition going around, sign if you want to keep our lake.............ours.