A Washington fisherman was arrested over 50 times for fishing on his ancestral river; his struggle made tribes legal co-managers and protectors of salmon

In 1945, a 14-year-old boy named Billy Frank Jr. walked down to the edge of the Nisqually River in Washington State to fish ...
The Inlander

A bronze statue of Nisqually fishing rights activist Billy Frank Jr. heads to D.C. next year; first a model of the piece stops in Spokane

It's a long road from the little patch of Indian trust land called Frank's Landing on the lower Nisqually River to Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C., but Billy Frank Jr. blazed his own trail to ...