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Article: Finding Common Ground -- Salvaged meat helps link tribes and sportsmen in the Methow Valley
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
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- January 30, 2000
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SEATTLE TIMES STAFF REPORTER
Tribal hunters and sportsmen don't always get along. But
communities on either side of the Cascades, once entangled in a feud
over hunting rights, have found common ground thanks to some good
conversation - and hundreds of pounds of road-killed deer.
Since November, hunters in the Methow Valley have been salvaging
meat from highways, turning the spoils of modern life into the
traditions of ceremony for some west-side tribes. In the past two
months, Methow residents have given six Indian tribes 700 pounds of
freshly killed meat, enough for 1,500 meals.
They delivered another 400 pounds last week to the Swinomish
reservation near La Conner, where the tribes served ...