ByCassandra Profita(OPB)

April 29, 2022 11:58 a.m.

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/04/29/grand-ronde-tribes-oregon-hunting-fishing-restrictions/

U.S. Senate bill would allow tribes to renegotiate the right to manage hunting and fishing on tribal lands

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde are working to lift state restrictions on tribal fishing and hunting imposed by a controversial agreement nearly 40 years ago.

Federal legislation backed by several members of Oregon’s congressional delegationwould overturn a consent decreethat tribal members say was forced upon them in the 1980s.

Grand Ronde tribal member and ceremonial fisher Sara Thompsontold OPB’s Think Out Loudthis week that federal termination took the tribes’ reservation land away, and to get any of it back, the state gave the tribes an ultimatum.

“That was basically, ’Sign the…