I was trying to read this with an open mind.....then I came to this:

"-- March 1999: Writing for the majority in a 5-4 split, upholding the fishing and hunting treaty rights of the Mille Lacs band of Chippewa against the state of Minnesota, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor reminded dissenting justices Scalia and Rehnquist that the court has a historical obligation to interpret treaties in favor of the tribes and in the spirit in which the Indians would have understood them when they were signed.



(Gov. Jesse Ventura's response: "If that's the way they want it, they can go back to birch bark canoes!")"