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The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically for thousands of years.

This from articles published on Friday in tandem by Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica.

[the previous occupant taking up space in] White House struck a deal in 2023 with states, environmental advocates and four tribes with treaty fishing rights in the Columbia River Basin: the Nez Perce, the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs, the Yakama Nation and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.

There’s always been exceptions to sovereignty, delegitimacy of treaties. The Jacksonian tradition endures.

Updated: buried many paragraphs down are:

  • “[The agreement] offered no guarantee of dam removal.”
  • “The Biden administration never followed through. Even tribally backed energy projects that were already in progress ran into bureaucratic quagmires.”