What are the Indian reservations like?
Ed Liebow: In the Skagit, they are small towns that are close by to little-bit-bigger towns. So the small reservation town has maybe 500 people living in it, but it’s right across the bridge from a town that has 5,000 people living in it. There is a lot of open space on the reservations, which is basically woods and beach. And, in two of the three reservations in the Skagit, way off away from the Native American settlement taking advantage of highways that cross the edge of the reservation, there are tribal stores. The Swinomish reservation is right on the saltwater, so you can see fishing boats in front yards. The Upper Skagit reservation, like its name sounds, is upriver and it is carved out of the woods adjacent to a railroad town that was built up to ship logs out to the coastal ports, where they were then taken to Seattle and San Francisco to be turned into boats and buildings. Logging was at its height through the 1960s but it has declined since the late 1970s. The third reservat
