The End of Reservation Saloons
Tacoma’s county commissioners move to systematically shutter all liquor outlets on the Puyallup Indian Reservation.
The only remaining saloon on the Puyallup Indian reservation was stamped out this morning when the board of county commissioners refused to grant Tony Berens a renewal of his liquor license. The commissioners have undertaken a methodical system of eliminating saloons on the reservation, at the request of the United States government, and today's refusal cuts off the sale of liquor within the boundaries of the reserve. Berens' place was near Fife.
“The commissioners have undertaken a methodical system of eliminating saloons on the reservation.”
This reflects the complex history of liquor regulation and federal jurisdiction on tribal lands, a recurring tension in the Pacific Northwest's history of land use and civic control.
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