The tribes have treaties that cannot be broken. Even the tribal members themselves cannot sell or give away these rights. No court in the land will ever go against these treaties because it would be avowing that the word of the U.S. government is no good.
And Salmo...I sure hope you didn't just plug Slade Gorton as a friend of sport fisherman!!
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