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Indians Battle Fishing Rights vs. Conservation

The question of whether or not Indian fishing off the reservation threatens to wipe out salmon runs has provided an issue that has turned the red man militant and arched the backs of state fisheries officials. The controversy is discussed in this two-part article in a continuing series probing the problems faced by the red man in white America.

BY HILDA BRYANT

On July 4, 1968, there was a new flag flying over the Capitol Building in Olympia. It was red and emblazoned on it were the words, "Indian Power." The only clue to the identity of the flag planters was a series of black footprints up the wall of the Temple of Justice. 

The incident was reported in the Renegade, the official Newspaper of the Survival of American Indian Association. The name of the news sheet is appropriate because the new breed Indian activist who are the outspoken proponents of contested treaty fishing rights are viewed by the mass of reservation Indian as renegades.

The Indian fish-in protesters' cause is not as much in disrepute as is their tactics. The prevailing view of [[column break]] other Indians about the demonstrations inviting arrest at Frank's Landing on the Nisqually River was express by Chief Alex Sherwood, head of the Spokane Tribe:
"What do they gain by this? Not a thing. They are overstepping their bounds."

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Spokane Executive Secretary and former tribal judge Glee Galbreath added:
"They are being used by Marlon Brando and Dick Gregory. It wouldn't be permitted on the Spokane Reservation. 

The intrusion of Hollywood actors and black militants into the Indian rights controversy with the State Fisheries and Game Commission is both scorned and resented by many Indians [[Column Break]]in the state. Quinault Tribal Business Manager Joe De La Cruz said Brando and Gregory would not be permitted to step over the boundary onto the Quinault Reservation. 

Another youthful Quinault Indian, fisheries specialist Guy McMinds, put the controversial Hank Adams and Al Bridges, who have led the fish-in protest, in the Indian perspective this way:

"These people are fighting a losing battle because they are right in the population center and the sportsmen are powerful and the various agencies dealing with them are powerful.

"And their tactics are alienating Indian people. So when you alienate Indian people from your cause and alienate the sportsmen and the commercial fishermen, who are you going to rely on but those few people

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[[caption]] ACTOR MARLON BRANDO CARRIED TWO SALMON
Brando helped catch them with gillnet in Puya [[word blocked]] [[/caption]]