Steeliegreg

So if I understand you correctly, your saying that tribes can "give" fishing rights to whom ever they want to?

Does that mean that a tribe could double its size if they married all "none Indians" and then double there federal dollars? That doesn't sound like it would fly with the feds to me! So, let's say that a Tribe has only 1000 members; all but 2 or 3 die due to a disease or disaster.

Does that now mean that those 2 or 3 members can still have 50% of all the fish that they originally had rights to and those rights are transferred to who they married? What happens when these people eventually interbreed pass the 1/4 or 1/8 or 1/32 blood lines? Who then decides who has fishing and hunting rights? Will it be done by DNA testing, or is the government just supposed to "take there word"?

At what point does the "tribes" interbreed there fishing and hunting rights away?

Cowlitzfisherman