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http://flash.oregonlive.com/cgi-bin/or_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed/O
REGON_NEWS/o0334_PM_OR--Columbia Treaty
Columbia treaty tribes finally gain fishing sites
The Associated Press
06/30/99 12:08 PM Eastern
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- After decades of inaction, the federal government is
finally making good on promises to replace tribal fishing access to the
Columbia River that had been inundated by the construction of Bonneville Dam.
Fourteen new fishing sites have been developed and transferred to the
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Locations for another 14 sites have been designated. If funds are
appropriated, work on six of them is scheduled to begin next spring.
A few of the fishing sites provide little more than river access. Others
are developed more extensively. The recently completed site near the
historic fishing grounds at Celilo, east of The Dalles, has a dock and boat
ramp, a fish-cleaning station, a shed for drying fish, campsites, restrooms
and a group shelter.
The sites are restricted to members of the four Columbia River treaty
tribes: the Nez Perce; the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation; the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation; and
the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation.
In treaties signed in the 1850s, the federal government promised that
tribal members would be ensured access to usual and accustomed fishing
sites along the Columbia River. When Bonneville Dam was completed in 1939,
followed by The Dalles and John Day dams, the federal government again
pledged to restore tribal fishing access.
But decades passed with no action on the promises. Problems repeatedly
arose in areas where Native Americans and non-Native Americans were fishing
side by side. Finally, the tribes petitioned Congress to do something about it.
Congress passed a law in 1988 requiring that certain lands along the
Columbia River be administered to provide access to the traditional fishing
areas for members of the four Columbia River treaty tribes.
The act mandated that 31 treaty fishing sites would be established along
the Columbia River from Bonnneville to McNary dams. So far, only 28 sites
have been designated.
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