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PAGE 4 WARM SPRINGS, OREGON MAY 14, 1976
ROBINSON (GORKY) MITCHELL does the Lord’s Prayer in
Indian sign language at the program sponsored by the
Pi-Ume-Sha committee at Kah-Nee-Ta last Sunday. Kah-Nee-
Ta’s social director, Andy Lucas, sang the words to the prayer.
Photo by Cynthia Stowell
Boldt decision said undercut
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treaty fishing rights
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MEMBERS OF THE PI-UME-SHA committee claim a shady spot as the dance program begins at
Kah-Nee-Ta Village op Madras Day. Heat did not deter adults and kids from performing the
traditional war, social owl, and skip dances. Visitors also joined in.
Photo by Cynthia Stowell
The Interior Department
remains consistent in its at­
tempts to undercut the Boldt
Decision and its implementa­
tion, as evidenced by its most
recent effort to effect the
transfer of tribal fishing rights
advocate James L Heckman
from his Fish and Wildlife
program post in the Northwest.
His service of many years
has proven beneficial and es­
sential to tribes affected by
Boldt. An understanding of the
importance of this action to the
Northwest tribes as well as for
a demonstration of recent
Boldt history is necessary.
In January the U.S. Su­
preme Court upheld the 1974
Boldt Decision regarding treaty
rights of Indian Tribes of the
Pacific Northwest The. Court,
refused to hear an appeal of
the case from the Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals, which had
also sustained the Decision and
sharply criticized State offi­
cials for their continuing, un­
reasonable attacks on Indian
rights.
In brief, U.S. Judge
George Boldt had ruled that
(1) treaties had reserved to
Indian - Tribes the opportunity
to take up to 50 percent of
harvestable fish resources in
off-reservation fishing grounds;
and (2) that Tribes retained a
sovereign right of self-regula­
tion over tribal fishing activi­
ties, providing that the Tribes
established adequate manage­
ment capacity and technical
expertise for managing the re­
served fish resources.
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