Author: Zoltán Grossman and Debra McNutt | guest column

On April 17, the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame in Stevens Point will posthumously induct Red Cliff Ojibwe tribal member Walter Bresette, a prominent treaty rights activist who organized support for the fishing rights of Ojibwe in the late 1980s, and opposition to metal mines in the 1990s. We know Walt as the co-founder of the Midwest Treaty Network (MTN), and an outstanding grassroots organizer who fought hard for Native rights while building bridges with non-Native neighbors.In the 1980s, a federal court recognized that the Ojibwe retained treaty rights to spear fish off their reservations. Hate groups organized mobs of…