No I suppose not. During that time there was no internet, except in some university or military lab.
All the stories would be found only in a library’s microfiche collection in Washington State.
Fishermen were sent to prison for the crime of commercially fishing salmon; fishermen were murdered by agents of the state; Federal warrants were served to every commercial salmon fisherman; no agent of the state was ever punished for wrong doing, rather they were rewarded - many stole fisherman’s catches and sold them for personal gain. The list and litany goes on.
The media would interview some guy or gal, telling them they wished to print a balanced story giving both sides. They never did, it was always only one sided coverage - many an honest reporter’s stories were round filed by their editors.
We were castigated as the “last of the buffalo hunters” / “worse than child molesters” / “the only good commercial fisherman is a dead one” and so on in the Seattle papers, local news TV and radio broadcasts, the national media: ABCNBCCBS & National Geo all told only the Tribal side with many slurs aimed at us.
The worst detractors were the Churches on ‘holier than thou’ crusades to scorch the waters of evil ignorant thieving fishermen; it did not matter that as a profession at the time we held more advanced academic degrees per capita than any other; or that the US Balance of Trade was dependent on commercial fishing catches: airplanes, timber and fish held the top three spots.
There is so much that happened during that time that many books could be written, not only fishing stories, but the laws that grew out of them which set the stage for what we are living through now. I lost everything - 30 years hard work sold for pennies on the dollar, wife, property - gone. I was one of the lucky ones - I lived.
Its your turn now.
Notably in your post you do not bring up racism, which was the original thing I keyed up on. You do not comment on how I characterize it as culturism.
You have a localized approach to this thing. You experienced local fishing-rights stuff and expanded on that to saying something about being born the wrong race.
I’ll give you a similar localized example in my case. Do you remember the Billionaire Boys’ Club? Probably not, even though a movie was made out of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billionaire_Boys_Club
That guy was murdered in the same condo building that my mother owned a condo in. The local Belmont police refused to move further in the investigation because they considered it a politically motivated assassination involving Iranians. They botched it.
Your local thing also has its wikipedia page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_Wars
When I do a search for the word ‘race’ on that page, I get zero hits. Yet you go from zero-hits on da page to making a racist-level statement.
To continue the local-interest aspect, on your fishwar page , the last sentence is
Fish-ins became a gathering place of Native American activists, and many people were trained for the foundation of the Red Power movement, which lead to the founding of the American Indian Movement in 1968 and the occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Alcatraz
I remember watching Alcatraz Island during this time from binoculars on the Golden Gate Bridge, asking questions about this injun thing. I was pretty young. The answers from my libtard parents lacked clarity.