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- Title
Fishing Wars Memorial Bridge.
- Authors
Kosick, Erik
- Abstract
The article discusses the Fishing Wars Memorial Bridge, which was built in 1927 on Puyallup Indian Reservation lands in Washington. The construction of the bridge disrupted the Puyallup Tribe's traditional fishing rights guaranteed by the 1854 Medicine Creek Treaty. The article also mentions the fish-ins and confrontations that took place in the 1960s and 1970s as activists fought for treaty fishing rights. In 2019, the bridge was renamed the Fishing Wars Memorial Bridge to honor the activists and the standoff. The bridge carries both its English name and its Twulshootseed name, yabuk'ʷali, meaning "place of a fight."
- Subjects
WAR memorials; TIDAL flats; TRUSS bridges; FISHING; NATIVE American reservations
- Publication
Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History, 2024, Vol 38, Issue 2, p23
- ISSN
0892-3094
- Publication type
Article