JOSEPH, Judge.
Defendant, a Chinook Indian, appeals his conviction of fishing in the Columbia River without a commercial fishing license (ORS 508.025, 508.235). He argues: (1) The Treaty of Olympia (12 Stat. 971), entered into in 1855 between the United States and the Quinault and Quileute tribes, reserves to the signatory tribes "the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed grounds and stations * * * in common with all citizens of the Territory"; (2) although...
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