sitting along the Nisqually River waiting for the fish to run.” Billy Frank Jr. was only 14 years old the first time he was arrested under a state law that prohibited net fishing by Indians in ...

MOBILE, Ala.—The U.S. Navy will christen the future USNS Billy Frank Jr. (T-ATS 11) during a ceremony on Saturday, March 29, at 10:00 a.m. CDT at Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama.

Billy Frank Jr. was only 14 years old the first time he was arrested under a state law that prohibited net fishing by Indians in off-reservation areas. But a treaty that had taken land away from ...

As my mentor the late NWIFC Chairman Billy Frank Jr. once said ... for example on the White River and Sol Duc River, but this is an unfair financial burden for the tribes to carry.

Billy Frank, Jr. served as Chair of the Northwest Indian ... Nisqually people’s traditional way of life, and endangered salmon, whose survival has been the focus of life for Coast Salish tribes.

MOBILE, Ala. -- Austal Ship Manufacturing in Mobile christened its first steel ship on Saturday. The USNS Billy Frank Jr.

Long before the large-scale Earth Day protests on April 22, 1970 – often credited with spurring significant environmental protection legislation – Native Americans stewarded the environment. As ...