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REVIEW: Charles WILKINSON, Treaty justice: the Northwest tribes, the Boldt decision, and the recognition of fishing rights, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2024, 353 pp.
In Treaty justice: the Northwest tribes, the Boldt decision, and the recognition of fishing rights, the late professor Charles Wilkinson discusses the Boldt Decision handed down by Judge George H. Boldt in 1974, which re-allocated 50 percent of off-reservation salmon runs to the Northwest tribes in Washington State. The historic ruling has since been regarded as «a landmark in the American civil rights movement»1. Wilkinson, who devoted his academic career to the study of Indigenous rights as a professor of law at the Universities of Oregon and Colorado, was encouraged to write the book by Billy Frank Jr., a Nisqually leader, former chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, and one of the leaders in the fishing rights movement in 1960s-1970s. The book enhances the existing body of literature on fishing treaties in the Pacific Northwest by weaving together history, anthropology, and law in a coherent narrative. Wilkinson repeatedly emphasizes the value of an interdisciplinary approach, arguing that concepts so central to the legal dispute such as sovereignty, tribal culture, community were shaped within specific historical and cultural contexts. […]
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Sabrina Schettino is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the Università del Piemonte Orientale, in Italy. Her research about pelagic sealing in British Columbia in the nineteenth century focuses on environmental history, Indigenous history, and colonial labour regimes. She has been visiting research student at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia. She has conducted community-based research in collaboration with the Pacheedaht, Mowachaht/Muchalaht, and Ka:yu:’k’t’h/Che:k:tles7et’h Nation on Vancouver Island. Her main research interests are marine environmental history, Indigenous history, and Pacific Northwest. She is a member of the Scholar Committee of the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE).
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SCHETTINO, Sabrina, «REVIEW: Charles WILKINSON, Treaty justice: the Northwest tribes, the Boldt decision, and the recognition of fishing rights, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2024, 353 pp.», Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, N. 66, 2|2026
URL: <http://www.studistorici.com/2026/06/29/schettino_numero_66/>
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«REVIEW: Charles WILKINSON, Treaty justice: the Northwest tribes, the Boldt decision, and the recognition of fishing rights, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2024, 353 pp.» by Sabrina Schettino/ Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribuzione – Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 Unported.
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