Billy Frank Sr.

AKA: Billy Frank Senior
Released
Full name:Billy Frank
Date of birth:1879
Date of death:1983
Age:104† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:Native American
Era:1910s
State:Washington
Support
Indigenous Sovereignty
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Biography

Billy Frank Sr., a Nisqually elder and the father of Billy Frank Jr., was an early figure of the fishing-rights struggle on the Nisqually River. His 1916 arrest for out-of-season salmon harvesting is among the earliest documented arrests of the long Northwest treaty fishing-rights fight that his son would carry forward.

Case

Charges: Unlawful out-of-season salmon harvesting (Nisqually treaty fishing rights, 1916)
Sentence: An early instance of state suppression of treaty fishing.
Convicted: Taken into custody for asserting treaty fishing rights.

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