re: #795 RunningBare

I loved it when the Makahs gave some of those hippies a “bath” in the ocean when they tried to interfere with the whale hunt. They asserted their treaty rights, point made, and showed the hypocrisy of some of those claiming to be in touch with nature and Native culture and all that. Since then, they haven’t had more than one or two hunts, but they showed that their rights were not to be diluted. Where I live, timber and fisheries rights are more relevant, with the local Nation taking a leading role in managing their own affairs and trying to rebuild their land base which had undergone severe dilution due to the allotment system. This also led to mismanagement by the BIA on the land-base (forced logging when owners didn’t want to sell for example) and a nightmare managing land that, under the allotment system, allowed sometimes hundreds of descendants to be tracked down for a single 80 or 40 [acre] allotment.