MUCKLESHOOT TRIBE v. LUMMI INDIAN TRIBE

Nos. 96-35341, 96-35342.

141 F.3d 1355 (1998)

MUCKLESHOOT TRIBE, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Squaxin Island; Nisqually Indian Tribe; Puyallup Tribe, Plaintiffs, v. LUMMI INDIAN TRIBE, Defendant-Appellant. MUCKLESHOOT TRIBE, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Squaxin Island; Puyallup Tribe; Nisqually Indian Tribe, Plaintiffs, v. LUMMI INDIAN TRIBE, Defendant, v. SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided April 17, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry L. Johnsen and Daniel A. Raas, Raas, Johnsen & Stuen, Bellingham, WA; Allan E. Olson, Office of the Tribal Attorney, LaConner, WA, for defendants-appellants.

Gregory M. O'Leary, Seattle, WA, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before: FLETCHER and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges, and SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.


SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge:

This appeal brings before us two disputes, (1) between the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe ("Muckleshoot") and the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community ("Swinomish") and (2) between the Muckleshoot and the Lummi Indian Nation ("Lummi"), over the interpretation of a decree adjudicating Indian treaty fishing rights in Washington state in respect to salmon and defining the "usual and accustomed fishing places" of the parties to this appeal in...

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