Draft:Fish War

Fish War (stylized FISH WAR) is a 2024 documentary film on the Native American fishing rights protests in the 1960s and 1970s in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The film was produced by Northwest Treaty Tribes Media and North Forty Productions, and will have its world premiere on May 11, 2024 at the Seattle International Film Festival.

Background
In 1974, the Boldt decision ruled that American Indian tribes had the right to fish on land ceded to the United States government in treaties made in the 1850s. Prior to this ruling, Native Americans were arrested for fishing on their native lands outside of reservations. To protest this, tribe members conducted civil disobedience demonstrations (fish-ins) in which they continued to fish on their ancestral lands.