Fishing

A Fact Sheet on Makah Whaling
(Makan Whaling Commission, July 21. Archive: NAE, 1998).

Aboriginal Right To Fish
(Laura Cameron, Stó:lo Curriculum Consortium, 1996).

American Fisheries Society, Native Peoples' Fisheries Section
"The Native Peoples' Fisheries Section comprises native and non-native fisheries professionals who have an interest in ensuring that the perspectives of indigenous peoples are represented in the activities of the Society." Not frequently maintained.

An Open Letter to the Public from the President of the Makah Whaling Commission about the Hunt
A very good discussion of why whaling is still important for the Makah. (Keith Johnson, Seattle Times, August 23 (Op-ed page). Archive: NAE, 1998).

Chippewa Treaty Rights: History and Management
Reviews the history of treaty rights to fish and hunt off-reservation, as well as contemporary Chippewa resource management programs. (Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, Excerpts from A Guide to Understanding Chippewa Treaty Rights: Minnesota Edition. Odanah, WI. Archive: NAE, 1995).

Columbia and Snake River Facts
Home For The Salmon Campaign. (Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, 1998).

Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
CRITFC is the technical support and coordinating agency for the fishery management of the Warm Springs, Yakama, Umatilla and Nez Perce Tribes (the four Columbia River treaty tribes).

Comprehensive Tribal Fisheries Management
(PDF format. Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, 4 pp).

Great American Whale Hunt
(Richard Blow, Mother Jones On-line, September-October, 1998).

History of Spearing and Netting by Wisconsin Chippewa
The authors have just cast this one into the void, with no links to explain where it came from, who wrote it, or why. (P. Maniak and P. Rivers).

Home for the Salmon Campaign Mission Statement
Waykaanashmíyay Nisháycht ("Home for the Salmon") is a non-profit educational campaign to restore natural salmon runs in the Columbia River Basin. (Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, 1998).

Makah Whaling
One page review of the U.S. government's position on the hunt. (PDF format. National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Region, January, 1999).

Makah Whaling
Anti-whaling. (William Rossiter, Whales Alive! 7(4). Cetacean Society International, 1998).

Makah Whaling: A Tangled Web
Anti-whaling. (William Rossiter, Whales Alive! 8(1). Cetacean Society International, 1999).

Makah Whaling Dance
A pretty offensive anti-whaling article from CSI. (William Rossiter, Whales Alive! 6(1). Cetacean Society International, 1997).

Makah Whaling Update
Anti-whaling. (William Rossiter, Whales Alive! 7(3). Cetacean Society International, 1998).

Management Plan for Makah Treaty Gray Whale Hunting for the Years 1998-2002
(Makah Whaling Commission, Archive: NAE, 1998).

Memorandum of Understanding between Tribal Governments and Washington State
About the regulation of environmental protection. They agree to cooperatively manage, protect and restore fish and wildlife habitat. This is the ultimate outcome to Phase II of the Boldt Decision (1974). (Archive: Fourth World Documentation Project, 1989).

Northwest Alaska Beluga Whale Mapping Project
Describes the project. (Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Alaska, 1996).

Northwest Indian Fishing Commission
The NWIFC was established in 1974 by the treaty tribes in western Washington…The Commission's role is to coordinate an orderly and biologically sound treaty Indian fishery in the Pacific Northwest.

Nuu Chah Nulth Whaling and its Significance for Social and Economic Reproduction
(Travis Reaveley, Chicago Anthropology Exchange Graduate Journal of Anthropology 28(Spring):23-40. Archive: NAE, 1998).

Review of Inuit, Whaling, and Sustainability
Review of Inuit, Whaling, and Sustainability, by Milton M.R. Freeman, Lyudmila Bogolovskaya, Richard A. Caulfied, Ingmar Egede, Igor I. Krupnik, and Marc G. Stevenson. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press (1998), 208 pp. (Grete K. Hovelsrud-Broda, Journal of Political Ecology 6, 1999).

Salmon and Aboriginal Fishing on the Lower Fraser
(Vince Harper, Stó:lo Curriculum Consortium, 1996).

The Makah Whaling Conflict
An overview of the history and politics of Makah whaling up to April 1999. (Alx V. Dark, Native Americans and the Environment Web Site, 1999).

Thriving of Wild Salmon
Remarks by the Nuu-chah-nulth chief Simon Lucas on the conservation of wild salmon and the importance of salmon to Northwest Coast Native communities. (Simon Lucas, Suzuki Foundation's Wild Salmon Conference, November 18. Remarks published in The Fisherman, December 13. British Columbia. Archive: NAE, 1988).

Tough Questions on Indian Fishing
Common questions about Indian treaty fishing rights answered. (Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, Archive: Fourth World Documentation Project).

Treaty Rights: Understanding the Conflict
Dr. Spangler was an expert witness for the Chippewa on their fishing rights and their treaties during the course of securing the right to their treaty fishery. This is an excellent, comprehensive resource on fishing rights in the Great Lakes region. (George R. Spangler, 1997).

Tribal Right to Fish
Assesses the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team (FEMAT) and its impact on treaty fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest. FEMAT was convened as a result of Clinton's "Timber Summit" in 1993. (Ted Strong, Archive: NAE).

Tribal Shellfish Resource Management
(PDF format. Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, 4 pp).

Tulalip Natural Resources Home Page
The Tulalip Tribe's Natural Resource Program manages shellfish harvests and salmon fishing.

Whales and West Coast Natives
A description of Makah whaling in the old days. A pretty reasonable article on an otherwise pretty hyperbolic site. (Joan Goddard, Victoria Times-Colonist, July 23. Archive: Whales on the Net, 1995).