Editing Muckleshoot (section)

=== Fights for treaty rights ===
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The Muckleshoot Tribe were denied their land claims in ''Duwamish Indians v. United States'', on the basis that there was no treaty with the "Muckleshoot". Later, however, in 1959, the [[Indian Claims Commission]] found that the ancestors of the Muckleshoot had possessed {{Convert|101,620|acres|sqmi km2}} of land, valued at $86,377. On March 8, 1959, the Commission ordered that the Muckleshoot Tribe be paid that amount by the United States.{{Sfn|Ruby|Brown|Collins|2010|p=199}}
[[File:Slugumus Koquilton, Muckleshoot Indian, standing next to oak trees on prairie near Sequalitchew Lake, Washington, April 1906 (BAR 220).jpeg|thumb|Slugumus Koquilton standing next to an oak tree near Sequalitchew Lake ({{Circa|1906}})]]
A large Army quartermaster depot was established in the Green River Valley at the south end of Auburn to take advantage of railways. It served the ports along Puget Sound, supporting the US war effort in the Pacific. In the post-World War II era, Auburn began to be more industrialized. Together with rapid population growth in the region, which developed many suburbs, these changes put pressure on the Muckleshoot and their reservation holdings. Many private land owners tried to prevent them from fishing and hunting in traditional territories.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Muckleshoot engaged in a series of protests,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xmlWr4aAt4EC&pg=PA342 |title=Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage |date=November 12, 2012 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-815-30913-0 |editor=Roger S. Powers |page=342 |editor2=William B Vogele |editor3=Christopher Kruegler |editor4=Ronald M McCarthy}}</ref> intended at protecting their fragile ecosystem. Known as the [[Fish Wars]], these protests attempted to preserve Muckleshoot fishing rights in nearby rivers that were not within the official reservation. County and state authorities had tried to regulate their fishing off-reservation. Similarly, the state tried to regulate other tribes in their fishing along the coastal waters.

In the [[Boldt Decision]], the federal district court upheld the right of the Muckleshoot and other Treaty peoples to fish from the rivers of the region and hunt in these territories. It ruled that the Native Americans had rights to half the catch in their traditional areas. It designated the Muckleshoot as co-managers of the [[King County, Washington|King County]] watershed, with control over fishing and hunting in their "Usual and Accustomed" historical fishing and hunting grounds.

While this improved the tribe's economic standing, the Muckleshoot were soon forced to contend with a sharp decline in the salmon population, due to the adverse effects on the environment, especially river water quality, of urbanization and industrialization. Dams on rivers had decreased the fish populations that could get upstream to spawn, and water quality in the rivers had declined. While they continue to fight for the preservation of the ancient salmon runs, the Muckleshoot also found other venues to improve their economy.