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UNITED STATES V. TAYLOR
(1887 - SUPREME COURT OF THE TERRITORY OF WASHINGTON)
The lower court denied the relief the Tribal harvesters sought.
The Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington reversed.
"[I]t seems to us that the Indians, in making the treaty, would have been more likely to have intended
to grant only such rights as they were to part with, rather than to have conveyed all, with the
understanding that certain were to be at once reconveyed to them." 3 Wash. Terr. 88, 96-97.
"What did the Indians intend to reserve to themselves by the words, ‘as also the right of taking fish at
all usual and accustomed places, in common with citizens of the territory?"" 3 Wash. Terr. 88, 97.
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