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 peaceful demonstrations known at the time collectively as the "fish wars," which 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.
This image shows a group of Indigenous fishers spreading a fishing net at an unidentified location in 1972.
Caption information source: http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/fish-ins.htm
ID Number: 1986.5.56319.1
Date: 1972
Physical Description: 1 transparency : color ; 2.25 x 2.25
