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State of Wisconsin does not return any type of revenues to my tribe 

 in reference to m£iking our hatchery operations go. 



I feel we have the state-of-the-art hatchery, but yet it was built 

 in the 1936 era. It is old, but yet it is fundamental, and continu- 

 ously doing the things that we ask it to do. 



I asked the legislation to state clearly the federal responsibilities 

 to the tribes in references to the resources on reservation. 



We need legislative support of all its natural resource programs, 

 because we are the stewards of the last 500 years for the people 

 that put their foot on this island. We need that support from you 

 legislators, as nation to nation. It's important that we get that type 

 of support. 



We have to continuously identify the problems that we do have. 

 We have many non-native people living within the confines of my 

 reservation, as I stated earlier, but yet no dollars coming to my 

 tribe in order to support its natural endeavor to exist as Ojibwa or 

 Anishinabe people. 



We have many white state jurisdictional issues on my reserva- 

 tion which definitely cause problems in reference to the use of their 

 resources on my reservation. 



We have many test cases out there, may it be the Montana case 

 that deals with non- Indian people in reference to a jurisdiction. 

 The State of Wisconsin has co-jurisdiction on my reservation also, 

 but once again without putting any type of dollars in. 



We asked to support the fact that we need also, as you heard 

 echoed here this morning, Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson 

 dollars. We need those dollars to exist. 



We don't need them to rob Peter to pay Paul, or use them to 

 switch one way or the other. We need those additional dollars. 



We have an Indian fish hatchery that deals with roughly over 50 

 million walleye eggs annually, and millions of mussel eggs annu- 

 ally that are being taken from our hatcheries and used in our res- 

 ervation waters. 



We have a reservation that has approximately 158 named lakes 

 and many small lakes, and yet we have no control. Ninety-five per- 

 cent of those bodies of water are used by the non-Indian people 

 without any type of control by tribal government. 



But yet we continue to exist under these conditions. Fishing and 

 hunting rights are essential to my people back home. 



So I know we have many items that are far greater than the 

 summary that I have before me, that's before you, to digest. And 

 I hope this committee will take a hard look at how it's going to im- 

 pact Indian people across this country. 



We have been promised many things as Indian tribes, and yet 

 gained little. 



So I hope that we can continue to create a better dialogue, Mr. 

 Chairman. So I'm going to leave it that way. 



[Prepared statement of Mr. Maulson follows:] 



