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[Elizabeth Furse] But so many times they'd been told they had no rights.

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So many times they were run off.

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Billy Frank, 51 times arrested and sent to jail.

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For what? For fishing under a treaty that is the supreme law of the land, pretty odd.

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[John Platt] The Fish Wars were really about asserting the tribes' rights

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rights under their treaties to take fish, not only on the reservations,

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but also at all usual and accustomed fishing places.

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[Ramona Bennett, Puyallup Tribe] My people have a right to life, my people have the right to live,

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and this was just about our right to harvest.

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Our treaty guaranteed right to harvest

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that our ancestors insisted on

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because they know you can't support your family if you don't have a means.

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And yet I think,

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I think we have to blame some of the problems that tribes face on racism.

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I think we have to be honest about that.

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It is racism because, "We don't want another group to have something we don't have."

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Elizabeth Furse

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John Platt

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Ramona Bennett