The Beginnings of the End…??

HauntedByWaters said:
There is a strong community pressure from within the tribe to keep tribal members commercial fishing and there are powerful groups that profit (tribal and non-tribal) from this commercial fishing. Never mind the fact that it is a profession with little viability as a small business.

To your other question, when some groups of developers want to rezone and build their huge apartment building, we white folk don’t all go “hurray a white man and member of our tribe is going to make a bunch of money.” It is no different in the tribes, there are groups that get most of the power and profit.

We outsiders see these special privileges and money as a beneficial for the tribe but it is much more complicated than that. How have fishing rights and casino rights helped the Nooksack tribe? They seem to be in some serious turmoil at the moment. They should be experiencing the age of Aquarius with the amount of, “give them whatever they want” people are accepting these days for the tribes.
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OK. I see that. I had a very interesting convo with a co-worker the other day about this. It was pretty enlightening.
What tribe did you work for? I'm curious if it was the same one.
 
FinLuver said:
Sounds like there might be some light…

However, as long as developments are allowed to continue to grow along rivers, the rivers themselves continue to get lower and lower…warmer and warmer…way too early every year.

A straw in the ground a straw in the river equals…

Well, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist.
And, the fish know it too.
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I agree. The coastal rivers near me are uncommonly low and warm, and the cobbles covering the bottoms have been layered in algae since mid-June. That's usually a late-August phenomenon. And now, the county plans to open the Urban Growth Boundary to multi-family housing - up to and including 4-plexes - in the areas around those rivers. That's not going to help.
 
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