Indian Country Today reports on the Coast Salish Gathering: TULALIP, Wash. – ”Enough talk, it’s time for action.” Billy Frank Jr., chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, summed up the consensus at the second day of the Coast Salish Gathering at the Tulalip Tribes Feb. 27 – 29. ”We are the Indian people, the […]
OLYMPIA (May 20, 2005) — Governor Gregoire says the state and the tribes have far to go in their government-to-government relationship. We couldn’t agree more. She recently followed the examples of her predecessors in officially endorsing the Centennial Accord, a 1989 state/tribal commitment to work together, as governments, to find mutual solutions to the many […]
Whoever you are, whatever you do and wherever you live in the state of Washington, it is to your benefit to support state and tribal co-management of the fisheries resource. There are a number of reasons why this is undeniably true. For one, it’s the law. Co-management is legally mandated by federal law. For another, […]
