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Hunting for Justice American Indian treaty rights are under attack By Jeff Shaw Olympia, Washington Poaching--not tribal hunting--is the real threat to elk herds.   Since time immemorial, hunters from Northwest tribes have supplied their families and tribal elders with deer and elk meat. Since June, their right to do so has been in jeopardy. Last summer, a decision by the state Supreme Court struck a fierce blow against treaty hunting rights reserved for Indian nations. A few weeks later, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife restricted Northwest tribes' elk hunting areas, shrinking them from the entire state of Washington to lands only slightly larger than the reservations themselves. These developments fly in the face of treaties signed by the region's tribes in the 19th century, which reserved the right to hunt on all "open and unclaimed land" in what was then the Washington Territory. The state of Washington is concerned that tribal hunters will deplete the region's deer and elk herds--though, as tribal leaders point out, Department of Fish and Wildlife data show tribal hunting was responsible for less than 3 percent of the 1998 harvest. As Suquamish Tribal Council member Georgia George-Rye points out, poaching is the real threat to deer and elk herds.       TOP HOME SUBSCRIBE MAIL   In These Times © 1999 Volume 24, Number 3