January 15, 1969
Janet McCloud, her husband Don and four others from the Tulalip Indian tribe were tried for one of their “fish-ins” on the Nisqually River in Washington state. Despite century-old treaties granting them half the salmon catch in their ancestral waters, state game officials harassed and arrested Indian fishermen. All were found not guilty and five years later a US District Court ruled in favor of 14 treaty tribes, including the Tulalip, upholding the language of their treaties.
