Excellent article. Small clarification: David was represented in federal court in LA by Federal Public Defender Tom Hillier, where he was convicted of selling 317 salmon and found not guilty of leading the massive “Salmonscam” that implicated dozens of tribal fishers, over three seasons in 1981 and 1982. I represented him in the Yakama Tribal Court retrial dubbed “Tradition on Trial” that was the longest criminal trial in court history in which the true jury of his peers found him not guilty based on entrapment with a special finding that the regulations sought to be imposed on him had interfered with the free exercise of his traditional religion. Somewhere, Smohalla was smiling!
I really liked your juxtraposition of 'we are the salmon people' against 'we are the coal people' etc etc. It shows which way of life is connected to life on earth.
Thanks Patrick, for this interesting story of a man and a court case I knew nothing about. Unfortunately, blaming the natives is a common historical narrative. As for what enduring sustenance we can call out, when our civilization is exhausting the very roots of sustenance? "We are the algorithm" doesn't quite measure up to "we are the salmon."
OT: On the Portland Police Review Board, I think cutting the police is a better strategy than police review boards, which divert even more funds from abortions, in addition to funds already diverted by the police budget. Another superior strategy is municipal secession on the part of East Portland. The idea of protecting policies from politicians is a telling problem because they are the same word. Also, cutting the police is not nearly as partisan an issue as it seems as there are many conservative towns that spend small percentages of their budgets on police and always have.
City abortion funding saves city school tax, so much so that cities can then fund country abortions as well, all without answering to country voters.
In this way, my guess is that 10 cities can cover the USA and 25 can cover the world.
Excellent article. Small clarification: David was represented in federal court in LA by Federal Public Defender Tom Hillier, where he was convicted of selling 317 salmon and found not guilty of leading the massive “Salmonscam” that implicated dozens of tribal fishers, over three seasons in 1981 and 1982. I represented him in the Yakama Tribal Court retrial dubbed “Tradition on Trial” that was the longest criminal trial in court history in which the true jury of his peers found him not guilty based on entrapment with a special finding that the regulations sought to be imposed on him had interfered with the free exercise of his traditional religion. Somewhere, Smohalla was smiling!
I really liked your juxtraposition of 'we are the salmon people' against 'we are the coal people' etc etc. It shows which way of life is connected to life on earth.
Thanks Patrick, for this interesting story of a man and a court case I knew nothing about. Unfortunately, blaming the natives is a common historical narrative. As for what enduring sustenance we can call out, when our civilization is exhausting the very roots of sustenance? "We are the algorithm" doesn't quite measure up to "we are the salmon."
OT: On the Portland Police Review Board, I think cutting the police is a better strategy than police review boards, which divert even more funds from abortions, in addition to funds already diverted by the police budget. Another superior strategy is municipal secession on the part of East Portland. The idea of protecting policies from politicians is a telling problem because they are the same word. Also, cutting the police is not nearly as partisan an issue as it seems as there are many conservative towns that spend small percentages of their budgets on police and always have.
City abortion funding saves city school tax, so much so that cities can then fund country abortions as well, all without answering to country voters.
In this way, my guess is that 10 cities can cover the USA and 25 can cover the world.