User:Matty4123/Main Page

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Welcome to Wikipedia


Cscr-featured.svg Today's featured article

Quileute net fishing
Quileute net fishing

United States v. Washington was a 1974 case heard in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. It reaffirmed the reserved right of American Indian tribes in the State of Washington to act alongside the state as co-managers of salmon and other fish, and to continue harvesting them in accordance with the various treaties that the United States had signed with the tribes. The tribes of Washington had ceded their land to the United States but had reserved the right to fish as they always had (pictured), including fishing at their traditional locations that were off the designated reservations. After a long trial, the decision of federal judge George Hugo Boldt held that the tribes were entitled to half the fish harvest each year. In 1975 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Judge Boldt's ruling and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case. After the state refused to enforce the court order, Boldt ordered the Coast Guard to enforce his rulings. In a later case, Justice John Paul Stevens summarized: "Both sides have a right, secured by treaty, to take a fair share of the available fish." (Full article...)

Icona de la Barra de la Taverna de la Viquipèdia.png Did you know...

Hounds on the Scent
Hounds on the Scent

Nuvola apps date.png On this day...

October 23: Day of Tasu'a (Islam, 2015); Mole Day

Claude François de Malet
Claude François de Malet

Nuvola apps knewsticker.png In the news...

Typhoon Koppu
Typhoon Koppu

Cscr-featured.svg Today's featured picture

Kimmeridge, Dorset, UK - May 2012.jpg
Kimmeridge is a small village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula in Dorset, England. The Kimmeridgian geological age is named after the village, which is also the type locality for Kimmeridge clay. The coastline of the parish forms part of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site.

Photograph: David Iliff · Archive ·  More featured pictures

About

Sister Projects

Commons-logo-31px.png Commons
Free media repository

Wikinews-logo-51px.png Wikinews
Free-content news

Wiktionary-logo-51px.gif Wiktionary
Dictionary and thesaurus

Wikiquote-logo-51px.png Wikiquote
Collection of quotations

Wikibooks-logo-35px.png Wikibooks
Free textbooks and manuals

Wikisource-logo-35px.png Wikisource
Free-content library

Wikispecies-logo-35px.png Wikispecies
Directory of species

Wikiversity-logo-41px.png Wikiversity
Free learning materials and activities

Wikimedia-logo-35px.png Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia project coordination