Muckleshoot Indian Tribe v. Lummi Indian Nation

ELR Citation: ELR 20309
No(s). 99-36224 (9th Cir. Dec 13, 2000)

The court affirms a district court decision holding that a 1978 case concerning Native American fishing rights in the Puget Sound intended for the Lummi Indian Tribe's usual and accustomed fishing areas to extend to the northern outskirts, or suburbs, of Seattle as they existed in 1974. In the 1978 ...