The Si'lailo Way

by Dupris, Joseph C.; Hill, Kathleen S.; Rodgers Jr., William H.

• ISBN13: 9781594600852
• ISBN10: 1594600856
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-01
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press

Summary

"This book is about Indians "going to law" to protect both the salmon and their own inherent right to harvest them. They did this with an enthusiasm born of cultural, spiritual and economic desperation. For nearly 150 years the Indian people and Indian Tribes have been the eye in the center of a legal storm that contested the fate of the fisheries. They supplied the moral compass that guided this law to favor the fish. Slowly and imperfectly, their sympathetic view of the fisheries has been incorporated into law. This mission to protect the fish has not been won. It has not been lost. And it will never be abandoned."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

William H. Rodgers, Jr. is the Stimson Bullitt Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Washington School of Law.

Table of Contents

The traditionalists : Sampson Tulee's will	p. 3
The diplomats : lawyer and looking glass	p. 25
The storyteller : the Huntington Treaty and the recollections of William Chinook	p. 41
The prophet : the strategies of enclosure and the audacity of George W. Gordon	p. 57
The elder : resisting enclosure and the testimony of White Swan	p. 71
The progressive : George Olney and his horse Seine	p. 91
The preacher : Sam Williams' fishwheel scow	p. 105
The unrecognized : George A. Charley's raid on Sand Island	p. 119
The young warrior : Levi Van Pelt	p. 133
The trustee, part one : Clarence Davis and the missing shack	p. 147
The trustee, part two : Bunny's castle and the Indians	p. 157
The trustee, part three : backing the Goudy boys	p. 165
The mapmaker : "redeeming" property and Abe Showaway's title search	p. 183
The chief : Tommy Thompson and the Celilo Fish Committee	p. 197
The orator : George Meninick's challenge to state authority	p. 223
The ecological visionary : Caples Dave	p. 239
The traders : the Charley brothers' refrigerator	p. 259
The skeptic : Tom Yallup, Indian scientist	p. 283
The gamblers : the hatchery of Jason Rau and Charles Strom	p. 297
The reciprocator : Frank Winishut's "in-lieu" properties	p. 319
The inventor : the creative demands of Irene Brunoe	p. 339
The dreamers : the values of Alex Saluskin	p. 361
Army crops of engineers photographs	p. 381
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