Opinion ID: 771494
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Heading: Excerpts from Marian Smith's Book

Text: 46 The Muckleshoot argue that excerpts, introduced at the underlying trial, from Marian Smith's book, The PuyallupNisqually, also establish that the Muckleshoot's ancestors lived and fished in Puget Sound beyond Elliott Bay. According to Smith, people from the village at the forks of the White and Green rivers came to the area around present-day Redondo Beach to gather shellfish. These Indians included the treaty-time ancestors of the Muckleshoot. See Washington, 384 F. Supp. at 366 (Indians from the Green and White River areas . . . and some Indians from the upriver portions of the Puyallup River . . . were removed and consolidated on the Muckleshoot Reservation.) 47 This evidence is also insufficient to establish a saltwater U&A beyond Elliott Bay. Smith's account does not establish that the Muckleshoot's ancestors trolled the waters of Redondo Beach. As discussed above, Smith's findings were that these people collected devil fish on the shores of Redondo Beach. This finding is not inconsistent with a determination by Judge Boldt that the Muckleshoot's ancestors did not engage in U&A saltwater fishing beyond Elliott Bay.