The Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission and nonprofit Meaningful Movies Project will be hosting a free screening of the documentary FISH WAR at Shoreline College Theater on Friday, Nov. 14. Doors open at 5 p.m., film starts at 6 p.m.  

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion including NWIFC Chairman Ed Johnstone and others featured in the film. 

Edmonds Bookshop will be there, selling books about the treaty rights struggle in the Pacific Northwest, including Ramona Bennett Bill's Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe, Charles Wilkinson's Treaty Justice and Messages from Frank's Landing (with Billy Frank Jr.) and Bill Wilkerson's In Common With.

More information: https://meaningfulmovies.org/events/fish-war-2/

FISH WAR highlights the violent struggle faced by Indigenous nations to exercise their treaty-protected right to harvest salmon in the Pacific Northwest. The protests led to a federal court case, U.S. v. Washington, that changed the way the state and treaty tribes care for the environment. The Boldt decision in this case went all the way to the Supreme Court.It should have put an end to the Fish Wars.Fifty years later, however, tribal treaty rights face adversaries including habitat destruction and climate change, which threaten to destroy salmon runs forever. 

Watch the trailer here