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Stanley Moses and Jeff Sheldon removing salmon from a gillnet on Lake Washington, July 16, 1984
After the Boldt decision of 1974, Indigenous tribes in western Washington were legally entitled to half the harvestable salmon run each year. Fishers from the Muckleshoot and Suquamish Tribes were allowed to fish from Lake Washington during specific four-hour windows, under the supervision of fishery officials representing both the state and the Tribes.Here, Stanley Moses (Muckleshoot) and his 12-year-old crew…
ID Number:2000.107.064.01.01
Date:1984
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Julian Lawrence and Louis Horn, Jr. netting salmon on Nooksack River, October 1991
Fish hatcheries in Washington state provided most of the yearly salmon catch. In this image, Julian Lawrence (left) and Louis Horn, Jr. pull in their net while fishing for coho salmon on the Nooksack River. Lawrence and Horn, both members of the Lummi Nation, were catching salmon to use as breeding stock in the Lummi tribal hatchery. At the time,…
ID Number:2000.107.064.01.02
Date:1991
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Sports fishers picketing Boldt decision at Federal Building, Tacoma, March 5, 1974
Beginning with treaties in 1854 and 1855, Indigenous tribes of Washington ceded their land to the United States but had reserved the right to fish as they had always done, including fishing at traditional locations that were off the designated reservations. Over time, the state of Washington had infringed on the treaty rights of the tribes despite losing a series…
ID Number:2000.107.064.02.01
Date:1974
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David Stepetin spreading eggs over hatching boxes at Nisqually Tribal Hatchery, January 1980
In the 1970s, fish hatcheries owned and operated by Indigenous tribes in Washington were growing quickly. The Boldt decision in 1974 upheld the tribes' fishing rights, but the total numbers of fish were diminishing. In response, many Indigenous tribes started up hatcheries to raise salmon and steelhead (there were also non-Indigenous and government-operated hatcheries). In 1979, 18 Washington tribes operated…
ID Number:2000.107.064.02.02
Date:1980
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Slade Gorton listening to testimony on bill to decommercialize steelhead trout, Seattle, June 29, 1981
In 1981, bills were introduced in the US Congress to make steelhead trout a game fish rather than one that could be fished commercially. At this time, non-Native fishers could not fish for steelhead commercially. Sports fishers hailed the bill, but Native fishers bitterly opposed it, fearing it could seriously affect their livelihood.A public hearing on the legislation, held on…
ID Number:2000.107.064.02.03
Date:1981
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Yakama fishers checking nets on Columbia River near Lyle, Washington, August 24, 1993
Protests in the 1960s and 1970s, known at the time collectively as the "fish wars," eventually led to the Boldt Decision (United States v. Washington, 1974), a federal ruling guaranteeing Washington tribes half the state's salmon and steelhead trout catch.In the 1990s, with growing water pollution nationwide, a study showed that tribal members living and fishing along the Columbia River…
ID Number:2000.107.064.02.04
Date:1993
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Woman working on digital meters at Fluke Manufacturing, Everett, October 29, 1981
John M. Fluke, Sr. was granted a patent for the VAM (Volts, Amps, Watts) meter instrument in 1947 and founded Fluke Corporation in the basement of his home in Springdale, Connecticut, the following year. Fluke, who was born and raised in Seattle, moved his company to the Ballard neighborhood in 1952. In 1981, Fluke opened a 500,000 square feet, $26…
ID Number:2000.107.066.17.01
Date:1981
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Woman working on microcircuits at Fluke Manufacturing, Everett, October 29, 1981
John M. Fluke, Sr. was granted a patent for the VAM (Volts, Amps, Watts) meter instrument in 1947 and founded Fluke Corporation in the basement of his home in Springdale, Connecticut, the following year. Fluke, who was born and raised in Seattle, moved his company to the Ballard neighborhood in 1952. In 1981, Fluke opened a 500,000 square feet, $26…
ID Number:2000.107.066.17.02
Date:1981
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Employee assembling a Fluke Manufacturing instrument at Beijing Radio Research Institute, Beijing, China, November 12, 1985
John M. Fluke, Sr. was granted a patent for the VAM (Volts, Amps, Watts) meter instrument in 1947 and founded Fluke Corporation in the basement of his home in Springdale, Connecticut, the following year. Fluke, who was born and raised in Seattle, moved his company to the Ballard neighborhood in 1952. In 1981, Fluke opened a 500,000 square feet, $26…
ID Number:2000.107.066.17.03
Date:1985
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Women working on inspection line at Fluke Manufacturing, Everett, November 5, 1986
John M. Fluke, Sr. was granted a patent for the VAM (Volts, Amps, Watts) meter instrument in 1947 and founded Fluke Corporation in the basement of his home in Springdale, Connecticut, the following year. Fluke, who was born and raised in Seattle, moved his company to the Ballard neighborhood in 1952. In 1981, Fluke opened a 500,000 square feet, $26…
ID Number:2000.107.066.17.04
Date:1986