“It still affects us today, the work that he did and the representations he built,” says Willie Frank, a Nisqually Tribal Council Member. “I don’t think people realize the seats at the table that our tribes have now.”
Frank remembers his father, who passed away in 2014, as a dedicated leader and the man who taught him at a young age about the importance of keeping up tradition. When Willie Frank was a kid, his father would often take him fishing at Frank’s Landing, a 6-acre patch of land by the Nisqually River that his grandfather bought in the early 1900s. In the ’60s, it was where his dad led “fish-in”
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