Tulee v. Washington, 315 U.S. 681 (1942), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held the Washington statute prescribing license fees for fishing is invalid as applied to a Yakama convicted on a charge of catching salmon with a net without first having obtained a license, in view of the 1855 treaty at the Walla Walla Council securing to them the exclusive right of taking fish in all streams running through or bordering reservation and right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places in common with citizens of Washington.

Sampson Tulee was a Yakama who was arrested in 1939 for fishing for salmon with a net, without a state license.

Black found that the terms of the treaty granted tribal members fishing rights both on and off of the reservation.

[2] Although the tribe had won the case, they still faced discrimination from the state and from non-Indian commercial fishermen.

It was not until 1974 when U.S. District Judge George Boldt ruled on the discrimination in United States v. Washington.