Vhawks right. This will come to pass eventually. Changing the publics opinion is the key to the beginning of the end for treaty rights. Most people were taught that the indians got f'd over and that they deserve special legal rights. Tribes spend millions massaging the public perception, lobbying gov't and funding elections. It's time for the real story to come out. These treaty rights are the last legal form of racial discrimination. USA has the power to negotiate these treaty rights away, it will require a lot of time, money and hard feelings but none of it will get started until the public is shown how this legal discrimination really hurts the peoples it is intended to help and is destroying a valuable resource. Thus the movie in my initial post.


I view co-managment as the single biggest and most easily remedied problem facing salmon and steelhead today.