abroad. The Indian tribes of the Pacifc Novth= Not all the treaty disputes are takin,
west recently carried to the United States Cir-cult Court of Appeals their contention that a treaty made by the American Government has been broken. In the Treaty of Wasco, negotiated in 1855, the Indians of that region received a promise of perpetual fishing rights along the Columbia River in return for their ceding vast sections of territory to the United States. Chinook salmon for years has constituted the principal food supply of numerous tribes.
Now the Indians maintain that the treaty has been violated because the State of Washington is compelling them to buy fishing licences. They insist that the pact with the American Government made no mention of this restriction, and they cite the journals of Lewis and Clark to prove that their ancestors were catching Columbia River salmon without licences, when the first white men reached the Pacific Coast. plied the game and fishing laws to the tribes-Not long ago the State of Oregon, too,
men, but public opinion forced the last session of the Legislature to insert this provision in the State code: "The fees prescribed in this chapter shall not be required of Indians with treaty rights."
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