Makah Indian Tribe's Request for Determination Re Quileute and Quinault Usual and Accustomed Fishing Grounds in the Pacific Ocean

  1. August 28, 2015

    Wash. Tribes Win Contested Fishing Area In Pacific Ocean

    A Washington federal judge has handed a second major victory to two northwestern Native American tribes, granting them the contested fishing zones they had fought for in the Pacific Ocean.

  2. August 25, 2015

    Ancestral Fishing Grounds Didn't Follow Coastline, Court Told

    Three northwest Washington Native American tribes urged a federal judge Monday to back their proposed demarcation of their ancestral fishing ground boundaries, saying that more restrictive boundaries proposed by a neighboring tribe don't take into account certain fishing trips undertaken by their ancestors.

  3. July 31, 2015

    Makah Say Neighboring Tribes Exaggerating Fishing Area

    The Makah Indian Tribe told a Washington federal judge Thursday that fishing zones proposed by the Quinault and Quileute tribes in the Pacific Ocean go too far beyond the area adjudicated by the court in keeping with their ancestral fishing grounds.

  4. July 10, 2015

    Wash. Tribes' Fishing Rights Reach Far Offshore, Judge Says

    A federal judge on Thursday dealt a win to the Quileute and Quinault tribes in a dispute with another northwestern Washington tribe over the extent of their ancestral fishing grounds, ruling that the Quileute and Quinault's fishing grounds extend to where they historically harvested marine mammals.

  5. May 26, 2015

    Wash. Tribes Say Historic Fishing Rights Extend Far Offshore

    Two northern Washington Native American tribes urged a federal judge Friday to find that their ancestral fishing grounds extend up to 50 miles offshore, while a third tribe argued that incidental evidence of the first two tribes' ancestors' hunting habits isn't enough to warrant the more expansive interpretation.

  6. April 20, 2015

    Wash. Tribes Say Fishing Rights Do Include Sea Mammals

    Several northwest Washington tribes urged a federal judge Friday to reject a claim that historical evidence of tribes hunting marine mammals isn't enough to help them establish fishing boundaries, saying taking away those rights would undermine the fishing rights of many other tribes.

  7. April 17, 2015

    Tribes Say Fishing Rights Exclude Sea Mammals

    Two Native American tribes told a federal judge on Thursday that evidence of whaling and sealing in an offshore fishery doesn't establish "usual and accustomed" fishing grounds in a dispute over ancestral fishing rights off of Washington's northern coast.