Question

Describe one example of how the treaties made with Native Americans in the mid-1800s have influenced legal decisions in modern Washington history (within the past 30 years).

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Answer 1

They've decided the fate of the Indians, decided their land boundaries, but some of them have been negative, because the Indians are tax exempt, they start large businesses like casinos outside of their territories and dont pay taxes, this is very controversial today,. minority group would be the american Indians, they used to be majority but now minority. they have had to fight both physically and legally to get to where they are today

Answer 2

Under the terms of treaties of 1854-56, the Native Americans had been given 50% of western Washington salmon resource. Over 100 years later, Judge George Boldt inverted the rules that had organized the growth of the commercial salmon fishery in the state, managed as a common-property resource of the community since statehood. Because of the Boldt Decision, the salmon fishery had been divided into two commercial fisheries. They were known as the "all-citizen" fishery and the "treaty-tribe" fishery.