Cw: fish

On the 2nd of march 1964, a group of indigenous rights activists, among them actor Marlon Brando and Puyallup tribal leader Bob Satiacum, illegally fished in the Puyallup River to protest the denial of treaty rights to Native Americans. This form of civil disobedience is known as a “fish-in”, and in this specific incident both Brando and an Episcopal clergyman were arrested.

The fish-in was staged by the National Indian Youth Council, a Native American civil rights organization formed in Gallup, New Mexico in 1961. It became part of the so-called “Fish Wars”, a set of protests spanning decades in which Native American tribes around the Puget Sound pressured the U.S. government to recognize fishing rights granted by the Point No Point Treaty.

The protests eventually won indigenous people in the area the right to fish without state permits - in the 1974 case “United States v. Washington”, U.S. District Court Judge George Hugo Boldt stated that treaty right fishermen must be allowed to take up to 50% of all potential fishing harvests and required that they have an equal voice in the management of the fishery.

The so-called “Boldt Decision” was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in 1979 and has been used as a precedent for handling other, similar treaties.

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My list of Ws:

  • I hit 200 lbs on the bench press for the first time
  • I am meeting with a job coach to try to eliminate my unemployability
  • If I can get away with it, I’m going to look for some things that I am interested in, and see if I want to go to grad school for it
  • I am teaching myself how to make youtube videos
  • I’ve been getting into Devil May Cry 4. I’ve played 1, 2, and 3 but I am really liking 4 (3 is also a favorite of mine.)

My list of Ls:

  • Seriously, I’m unemployable. I have some work experience and a degree but employers are so picky and get so many unicorns that apply to them I never even get interviews. I’ve applied to hundreds of places and not one place has called me back, plus it’s hard to find jobs I even qualify for at all. Substitute teaching is my “job” so far and sometimes there aren’t enough teachers calling out in any given week for me to have full-time work.
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