Bill seeks resolution for convictions during '60s Fish Wars
Last updated 1/16/2014 at 10:44am
Nearly half a century after hundreds of American Indians were arrested during the "Fish Wars"
in the Northwest, a proposed state bill would give those who were convicted a chance to clear their records.
Along with arrests, American Indians were repeatedly harassed and beaten while trying to exercise their treaty rights to fish, according to Hank Adams, a Sioux-Assiniboine tribal advocate.
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