Fish Wars
The fish wars were a fight for
What is the right for indigenous people to fish on their usual and accustomed lands?
A coal export can be described as
What is a large facility where coal is delivered by train and transferred to boats to be shipped overseas for profit?
This many tribal leaders from across the Pacific Northwest came to sign the Point Elliott Treaty
What are 82 Tribal Leaders?
Who is Billy Frank Jr.?
Coal can be used to:
What is generate electricity?
The Point Elliott Treaty was signed in this city
What is Muckilteo Washington?
What are the 1960s and 1970s?
A coal treatment plant was proposed for this Bellingham-adjacent location.
What is Cherry Point?
The Point Elliott Treaty was proposed by this white settler.
Who is Governor Isaac Stevens?
In the 1950s the Lummi fishermen were only catching this percentage of the total fish caught in Washington state
What is 6%
A coal plant may be considered good for the economy for this reason.
What is creating stable jobs?
Article 5 is considered the most important piece of the Point Elliott Treaty because it protected these rights of the indigenous people...
What is the right to fish on their usual and accustomed grounds?
Some newspapers and organizations portrayed native people this way during the fish wars
What is greedy and selfish?
A coal plant may be considered hazardous because of this environmental reason
What is destroying fish habitats along the coastline?
These were the living conditions among the Lummi people prior to contact with white settlers.
What is living in longhouses and fishing along the Nooksack river?