Nesper is author of The Walleye War: The Struggle for Ojibwe Spearfishing and Treaty Rights (University of Nebraska Press, 2002), and he has worked closely with several tribes in Wisconsin and with the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. Nesper teaches courses in American Indian ethnography and ethnohistory, Indians of the Western Great Lakes, anthropology of law, and American Indian social and political movements. His seminar project is entitled “Africa in Indian Country.”