Lwr Elwha Klallam Indian Tribe v. Lummi Nation

OPINION

BEA, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves a fishing territory dispute between two sets of Indian tribes: the Lower Elwha S’Klallam Tribe, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, and the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe (“the Klallam”) on the one hand, and the Lummi Nation Tribe (“the Lummi”) on the other. The appeal arises from a proceeding brought by the Klallam pursuant to the continuing juris*1182diction of a 1974 decree issued by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (“Boldt Decree”), and it involves a dispute over the geographic scope of the Lummi’s “usual and accustomed…