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Title
The Palmer and Stevens “Usual and Accustomed Places” Treaties in the Opinions of the Courts
Date of this Version
September 2008
Abstract
One hundred fifty years ago, Joel Palmer, as Superintendent of Indian Affairs for
the Oregon Territory, and Isaac I. Stevens, as Governor and Superintendent of
Indian Affairs of the Washington Territory, negotiated a series of treaties with
tribes of the Pacific Northwest. These 10 instruments have affected the gathering
rights of tribes and of others in this area and throughout the United States and
have generated a substantial amount of litigation. This article reports on the 512
citations to these specific documents in 354 opinions, between the years 1874 and
2005, in various jurisdictions ranging from territorial courts to the U.S. Supreme
Court.
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Published in Government Information Quarterly 25 (2008), pp. 778 –795; doi 10.1016/j.giq.2007.10.004 Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Inc. Used by permission. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0740624X