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Image of Crowd in rotunda at State Capitol building, Olympia, March 3, 1964
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Crowd in rotunda at State Capitol building, Olympia, March 3, 1964

In the 1960s, 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 peaceful demonstrations…
ID Number:1986.5.4415.3
Date:1964
Image of Native American men at State Capitol building, Olympia, March 3, 1964
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Native American men at State Capitol building, Olympia, March 3, 1964

In the 1960s, 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 peaceful demonstrations…
ID Number:1986.5.4415.4
Date:1964
Image of Native American women at State Capitol building, Olympia, March 3, 1964
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Native American women at State Capitol building, Olympia, March 3, 1964

In the 1960s, 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 peaceful demonstrations…
ID Number:1986.5.4415.5
Date:1964
Image of Governor Rosellini at State Capitol building, Olympia, March 3, 1964
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Governor Rosellini at State Capitol building, Olympia, March 3, 1964

In the 1960s, 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 peaceful demonstrations…
ID Number:1986.5.4415.7
Date:1964
Image of Dick Gregory at Thurston County Superior Court, Olympia, November 20, 1966
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Dick Gregory at Thurston County Superior Court, Olympia, November 20, 1966

Richard Claxton "Dick" Gregory (1932-2017) was a American comedian and civil rights activist who helped call attention to Washington State laws restricting Native American rights. The "fish wars" as they were known at the time, led to the Boldt Decision, a federal ruling guaranteeing Washington tribes half the state's salmon and catch.In this image Dick Gregory stands outside the courtroom…
ID Number:1986.5.4419.25
Date:1966
Image of Frank Allen and Esther Ross looking at map to plan tribal fish-in, 1968
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Frank Allen and Esther Ross looking at map to plan tribal fish-in, 1968

Stillaguamish Chief Frank Allen and Esther Ruth Ross point to an area on map they say belongs to the Stillaguamish tribe. They are planning a fish-in to protest the tribe's loss of fishing rights on its ancestral lands. Handwritten on sleeve: INDIANS, Stillaguamish, Attempt to regain ancestral lands.Date photograph was published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: July 7, 1968.
ID Number:1986.5.4436.1
Date:1968
Image of Muckleshoot Treaty Trek in support of tribal fishing rights, 1966
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Muckleshoot Treaty Trek in support of tribal fishing rights, 1966

In the 1960s, 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 peaceful demonstrations…
ID Number:1986.5.4450.2
Date:1966
Image of Young patient looking out of window at Firland Sanatorium, Seattle, December 1, 1954
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Young patient looking out of window at Firland Sanatorium, Seattle, December 1, 1954

Firland Sanatorium, Seattle’s municipal tuberculosis hospital, opened on May 2, 1911, to help combat what was at the time Seattle’s leading cause of death. Firland was located north of Seattle, on land donated by railroad magnate Horace C. Henry (1844-1928), whose son Walter had died of TB. The hospital served there until its move in 1947 to a former Naval…
ID Number:1986.5.9391.1
Date:1954
Image of Doctor examining young patient at Firland Sanatorium, Seattle, December 1, 1954
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Doctor examining young patient at Firland Sanatorium, Seattle, December 1, 1954

Firland Sanatorium, Seattle’s municipal tuberculosis hospital, opened on May 2, 1911, to help combat what was at the time Seattle’s leading cause of death. Firland was located north of Seattle, on land donated by railroad magnate Horace C. Henry (1844-1928), whose son Walter had died of TB. The hospital sered there until its move in 1947 to a former Naval…
ID Number:1986.5.9391.2
Date:1954
Image of Young patient giving another a gift at Firland Sanatorium, Seattle, December 1, 1954
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Young patient giving another a gift at Firland Sanatorium, Seattle, December 1, 1954

Firland Sanatorium, Seattle’s municipal tuberculosis hospital, opened on May 2, 1911, to help combat what was at the time Seattle’s leading cause of death. Firland was located north of Seattle, on land donated by railroad magnate Horace C. Henry (1844-1928), whose son Walter had died of TB. The hospital served there until its move in 1947 to a former Naval…
ID Number:1986.5.9391.3
Date:1954
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