Potential Effects of OCS Oil and Gas Activities on Oregon and Washington Indian Tribes: Description of Overall Legal Environment and Legal Status of 16 Specified Tribes

摘要

The report explores the evidence for marine resources used by a number of important historical Indian groups, ranging from the middle-Oregon seacoast to upper Puget Sound, in the Treaty period (1854-1856) to the mid-20th century, based on the same kinds of documentary sources. It concludes with a summary of the historical linkages between these historical groups and present-day tribal organizations which are legally constituted in the study area. The objectives of the report were: (1) to establish the geographic and ecological scope of marine harvesting activities for 16 specified Indian tribes and their predecessors at the time of their treaties with the United States in the 1850s and (2) to assess the extent to which these activities may be legally protected as treaty rights at the present time.