United States of America, and Quinault Indian Tribe, Plaintiffs-Intervenors, and the Suquamish Indian Tribe, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant v. The Skokomish Indian Tribe, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee v. State of Washington

764 F.2d 670 UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, and Quinault Indian Tribe, et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors, and The Suquamish Indian Tribe, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant, v. The SKOKOMISH INDIAN TRIBE, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee, v. STATE OF WASHINGTON, et al., Defendants. No. 84-3894. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted April 2, 1985. Decided June 25, 1985. Joanne Foster, Browne, Ressler & Foster, Seattle, Wash., for plaintiff-intervenor-appellant. Gregory M. O'Leary, Wickwire, Lewis, Goldmark & Schorr, Seattle, Wash., for plaintiff-intervenor-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. Before WRIGHT, KENNEDY, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges. J. BLAINE ANDERSON, Circuit Judge: 1 In 1855, the United States signed treaties with several Pacific Northwest Indian tribes, including the Skokomish and Suquamish Indian Tribes. The treaties reserved to the signatory tribes their pre-treaty fishing rights in relation to one another. 2 The district court found that the Twana Tribe (the aboriginal predecessor in interest of the Skokomish) had a primary right to fish the Hood Canal and its watershed…