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Pacific Northwest Salmon Habitat: The Culvert Cases and the Power of Treaties

Pacific Northwest Salmon Habitat: The Culvert Cases and the Power of Treaties

American Indian tribes in the Pacific Northwest signed treaties with the federal government in the 1850's that preserved their right to fish in their "usual and accustomed" fishing grounds. The tribes have had to continually fight to have this right recognized. U.S. v. Washington, 1974, the Boldt…