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Billy Frank Jr. (March 9, 1931 – May 5, 2014) was a Native American environmental leader and advocate of treaty rights. As a member of the Nisqually tribe, Frank led a grassroots campaign in the 1960s and 1970s to secure fishing rights on the Nisqually River , located in Washington state .
Billy Frank, Jr. was a tireless advocate for Indian treaty rights and environmental stewardship, whose activism paved the way for the “Boldt decision,” which reaffirmed tribal co-management of salmon resources in the state of Washington. Frank led effective “fish-ins,” which were modeled after sit-ins of the civil rights movement ...
Mar 10, 2009 · Frank, Billy Jr. (1931-2014) Billy Frank Jr. served as chair of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (NWIFC) for most of its first 30 years. He committed his life to protecting his Nisqually people's traditional way of life and to protecting the endangered salmon whose survival is the focus of tribal life.
Jun 10, 2021 · A Lifelong Fight for Justice. Frank passed away in 2014, however his place in Washington history continues to march forward. Earlier this year, Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee signed House Bill 1372 to start the process of honoring Frank with a statue in the U.S. Capitol Statuary Hall. Inslee heralded Frank as a “warrior of justice” who ...
Billy Frank Jr. is a fisherman, and when he dies he hopes that's how history remembers him. He is not a casual angler who passes sunny afternoons in search of tall tales and kings. Fishing is part of Billy's DNA. In a society fascinated by advancing technology, the Nisqually Indian will take you back to nature.
SEATTLE (AP) — Billy Frank Jr., a tribal fisherman who led the "fish wars" that restored fishing rights and helped preserve a way of life for American Indians in the Northwest four decades ago, died Monday at 83. The Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission and the Nisqually Tribe near Olympia, Washington, confirmed his death. The cause was not immediately known. Frank was arrested more than 50 times for "illegal fishing" between boyhood and middle age, during what came to be known as the ...
Nov 3, 2022 · Billy Frank, some of his co-protesters, and several elders testified including Billy’s dad, 95-year-old Willie Frank, Sr. On February 12, 1974, Judge Boldt found that the Indigenous fishers were entitled to 50% of the harvestable catch, with 50% for non-native fishers, and that Indigenous people could fish in their “ usual and accustomed places “.
