United States v. Washington
At a glance:
- Series: Racial and Ethnic Relations in America
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Law, Legal History, Courts
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Court Cases, Rulings, Appeals, Treaties, Agreements, Negotiations
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Washington
- Date: 1974
Article abstract: A U.S. district court rules that Indians may fish at sites not on reservations because this right had been reserved in treaties.
United States v. Washington is commonly referred to as the Boldt decision after the judge who decided it in federal district court. In a series of treaties negotiated between 1854 and 1855, various Washington and Oregon tribes ceded nearly sixty-four million acres of land but retained the right to continue to fish in accustomed areas. The states of Washington and Oregon eventually sought to regulate Indians’...
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