Native American children protest at Legislative Building in 1963

A group of Native American children and their parents bear picket signs at the Rotunda of the Legislative Building to protest a Washington State Supreme Court decision that limited Indian fishing rights. One child, marching by the Rotunda’s Christmas tree, bears a sign reading “Santa Claus isn’t coming to my house. Do you know why?” Tribal fishing treaty rights were ultimately recognized in the Boldt decision of 1974.

Daily Olympian photo, December 1963, State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1986.43.63.12.23.2.1

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