You have GOT to be kidding.... Right?
We are not the ones biotching about how good we had it until someone came along and screwed us, then embrace the technology that the same jerks who screwed us use. That is the issue. The treaties were meant to allow the way of life to be retained as much as possible with the change that came with the Europeans arrival in America...... That beautiful "Tradition" has been polluted with the use of "White man" technology. I am all for the retention of Tribal customs and passing down of the "Old ways", but raping the resource for a buck is White upper-class America at it's best, and should not be adopted as method by peoples speaking the "Tribal Heritage" talk.
My problem with the Boldt decision is this..... We live in a country where you are not supposed to be better, or get more, simply due to your race/ethnicity. But giving less than 3% of the population 50% of all game and fish is doing just that. The treaty never said anything about the indians getting half of the resource, only that they be allowed to continue to fish and hunt.
Read the treaty man! Also, do some searching on a Yakima group by the name of SoHappy. They raped the resource on the Columbia and tributaries for years, and were hauled to court many, many times for fishing closed waters, killing wild fish, selling illegally taken game, and each time the charges were dropped because of a fancy lawyer waving the "Treaty" in the judges face. They were renegades pure and simple, and used the "Treaty" as an excuse to do whatever, whenever they wanted, stating it was their right as Indians......


MC