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Billy Frank Jr.'s Award of Honor

I was happy to hear that Pres. Obama awarded Billy Frank a U.S. Medal of Freedom for 2015. He died just this year, a consistent fighter (endless arrests for fish-ins) to regain the Indian treaty fishing rights lost, finally won back through the federal court "Boldt Decision" of 1975.
There is a great photo of him in younger years in my book "Rough Waters", as seen below:
“Billy Frank Jr. at Frank’s Landing in Olympia, WA, 1973” (photo by T. Thompson; permission from Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission)
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