BEEZER, Circuit Judge:
The Lummi Indian Tribe appeals from a judgment holding that in 1855 certain waters in the northern part of Puget Sound were usual and accustomed fishing grounds of the Tulalip Tribes. We affirm.
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The United States and various tribes, including predecessors to the Lummi and Tulalip Tribes, entered into the Treaty of Elliott Point in 1855. Article V of the Treaty reserves to signatory tribes "[t]he right of taking fish at usual...
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