1924: an #Indigenous man hunts a deer on treaty-reserved land. Gets criminally convicted.
The ruling said tribal nations are not sovereign or independent, "the Indians being mere occupants of the land.”
The hunter died decades ago. The family member who continued his case died in 2007. But a tribal attorney kept pushing to get the unjust, demeaning conviction reversed.
On Thursday, nearly a century later, the #Washington state Supreme Court admitted it was wrong.
America built its first "concentration camp school," or Indian boarding school, on the Yakama reservation in 1860.
Now, the state of #Washington has appointed five #Indigenous leaders to a Truth and Reconciliation Tribal Advisory Committee, which will investigate the state’s history of Native boarding schools.
In the 1960s and '70s, cops were brutalizing #Indigenous people in the #PNW ...for fishing.
But fishing is a treaty-protected right. People stood up for it. Elders call this era the Fish Wars.
In 1974 the issue went to the Supreme Court. After 3 years of discovery and pretrial, Judge George Boldt heard the case and ruled that the state of #Washington must respect the Indigenous right to fish.
The Boldt decision changed the landscape. It turns 50 next month.
On Thursday, the Biden administration announced its support for preparing to breach the four Lower Snake River Dams.
The Nez Perce Tribe, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs, and Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, have been fighting for years to bring the dams down to restore #salmon runs.
Actually breaching the dams will require an act of Congress.
9 Times the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Miscalculated Badly at the Expense of #Taxpayers, #Wildlife
The agency has a history of diving into big #construction projects that exceed projected costs, fall short on projected benefits and, in some cases, create new problems that #engineers hadn’t bargained for.
BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court won't hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the #Washington State Voting Rights Act. These crucial state-level voting rights protections will remain in place in the Evergreen State. #SCOTUS
A solar developer sent a state lands archaeologist a string of urgent text messages, which we obtained through a public records request, insisting that she keep her findings private and not share them with tribes.
But when his texts reached the state lands archaeologist, she was already at Badger Mountain --- showing her findings to a tribal representative.
After he helped create the state’s voting maps, a #redistricting commissioner quietly worked with national #GOP figures to bring a lawsuit against his own work.
These two plots tell a sad story about where we are in #Eastern#Washington with the #Covid#pandemic. From what limited information is still available nowadays, it seems like the whole country is experiencing yet another wave of #SARSCov2 circulation, but my local region is all I really try to keep up with anymore.
I will try to explain in a 🧵 why this is all so crazy and awful. Read on if you care about your ability to engage in mental, physical, and even sexual activity.
You can't possibly imagine desecrating a #synagogue in #Washington State is a legitimate target for something in Israel. You just hate #Jews.
"One of the largest #synagogues in #Seattle was defaced on Monday night with hateful anti-#Israel propaganda, the organization StandWithUs reported Wednesday, attaching a series of photos. The photos show spray paint graffiti with sentences such as "Shame on Israel," and "Stop killing."