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Image of Muckleshoot Tribe members practicing their fishing rights in Green River, Auburn, October 4, 1970
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Muckleshoot Tribe members practicing their fishing rights in Green River, Auburn, October 4, 1970

In the 1960s and 1970s, Native Americans and their supporters began protesting Washington State laws restricting Native American fishing rights that had been granted in a series of treaties with the United States between 1854 and 1855. The Survival of the American Indian Society (SAIA), the NAACP, and the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), coordinated a series of protests and…
ID Number:1986.5.52952.12
Date:1970
Image of Muckleshoot Tribe members practicing their fishing rights in Green River, Auburn, October 4, 1970
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Muckleshoot Tribe members practicing their fishing rights in Green River, Auburn, October 4, 1970

In the 1960s and 1970s, Native Americans and their supporters began protesting Washington State laws restricting Native American fishing rights that had been granted in a series of treaties with the United States between 1854 and 1855. The Survival of the American Indian Society (SAIA), the NAACP, and the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), coordinated a series of protests and…
ID Number:1986.5.52952.17
Date:1970
Image of Muckleshoot Tribe member practicing their fishing rights in Green River, Auburn, October 4, 1970
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Muckleshoot Tribe member practicing their fishing rights in Green River, Auburn, October 4, 1970

In the 1960s and 1970s, Native Americans and their supporters began protesting Washington State laws restricting Native American fishing rights that had been granted in a series of treaties with the United States between 1854 and 1855. The Survival of the American Indian Society (SAIA), the NAACP, and the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), coordinated a series of protests and…
ID Number:1986.5.52952.23
Date:1970
Image of Muckleshoot Tribe member practicing their fishing rights in Green River, Auburn, October 4, 1970
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Muckleshoot Tribe member practicing their fishing rights in Green River, Auburn, October 4, 1970

In the 1960s and 1970s, Native Americans and their supporters began protesting Washington State laws restricting Native American fishing rights that had been granted in a series of treaties with the United States between 1854 and 1855. The Survival of the American Indian Society (SAIA), the NAACP, and the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), coordinated a series of protests and…
ID Number:1986.5.52952.31A
Date:1970
Image of Protestors at Boeing, Seattle, 1970
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Protestors at Boeing, Seattle, 1970

Sign in image: Build Transit at Boeing - End Layoffs. Handwritten on sleeve: Protest March on Boeing. Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): November 5, 1970.
ID Number:1986.5.53184.1
Date:1970
Image of Demonstration against demolition of Pike Place Market, Seattle, 1971
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Demonstration against demolition of Pike Place Market, Seattle, 1971

Demonstrators march in a successful campaign to "Save the Market" from demolition. Seattle voters showed their support on November 2, 1971 by passing Initiative No. 1 that opposed the City Councils plan to raze the Market and build high-rise offices and apartments with federal urban renewal funds. Signs in image: The Pike Place Market is Seattle's History. Our Children Need…
ID Number:1986.5.53773.1
Date:1971
Image of Native American student demonstration against Bureau of Indian Affairs, Seattle, 1971
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Native American student demonstration against Bureau of Indian Affairs, Seattle, 1971

On February 16, 1971, one hundred Native students at the University of Washington marched from the university's main campus to the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Eastlake, in support of the United Indian People's Council (later United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, or UIATF) occupation of Fort Lawton. The protest at the 1,100-acre army post in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood…
ID Number:1986.5.53853.1
Date:1971
Image of Demonstrators making protest signs at McNeil Island ferry landing, February 1971
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Demonstrators making protest signs at McNeil Island ferry landing, February 1971

McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:1986.5.53911.5A
Date:1971
Image of Demonstration against demolition of Pike Place Market, Seattle, 1971
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Demonstration against demolition of Pike Place Market, Seattle, 1971

Supporters to "Save the Market" march in front of the Seattle Municipal Building. Organizations such as Friends of the Market led by University of Washington architecture professor Victor Steinbrueck, seen here in the front of the line, opposed the demolition of the Pike Place Market to make way for high-rise offices and apartments as part of a proposed urban renewal…
ID Number:1986.5.54096.1
Date:1971
Image of Rally against the Burke Gilman Trail, Seattle, September 12, 1971
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Rally against the Burke Gilman Trail, Seattle, September 12, 1971

In 1885, Judge Thomas Burke, D.H. Gilman, and other investors raised funds to build the Seattle, Lake Shore, and Eastern Railway. They hoped to connect Seattle by train to the eastern part of the U.S., but the initial route only reached the north end of Lake Washington. Later absorbed by the Northern Pacific the line was used primarily for a…
ID Number:1986.5.55062.1
Date:1971
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