William Frank Jr., born on this day in 1931, was an indigenous environmental leader and treaty rights activist known for his use of the “fish-in”, a civil disobedience tactic used to win indigenous rights to natural resources.
A Nisqually tribal member, Frank is particularly known for his grassroots campaign for fishing rights on the tribe’s Nisqually River. Frank was arrested more than 50 times in the “Fish Wars” of the 1960s and 1970s because of his intense dedication to the treaty fishing rights cause.
The tribal struggle was taken to the courts in “U.S. v. Washington”, with federal judge George Hugo Boldt issuing a ruling in favor of the native tribes in 1974. The “Boldt Decision” established the 20 treaty Indian tribes in western Washington as co-managers of the salmon resource with the State of Washington, and re-affirmed tribal rights to half of the harvestable salmon returning to western Washington.
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Remember no crackers
This legitimately pissed me tf off when I first saw it because I just KNOW that the shitlibs and chuds are now going to use this guy to do even more apologism for the US military, ad infinitum ad nauseam, just like they do with the “poverty draft” and “they were innocent smol beans who didn’t know what they were doing!” The fact that this guy signed up to kill brown people abroad is never even going to set in for so many people. This shit makes me so mad omg
“Uhh I didn’t know the military was for killing people” who tf do these pricks think they’re fooling?
Funny how this same sympathy isn’t extended to robbers and thieves who kill far less people
“Uhh look he was just a kid once” yeah so was everyone who has ever lived and ever will live, who cares?
“Uhh but he did community service” yeah the white supremacist death squad member? Remind me why I should care. What if Hitler did trash cleanup as a kid?
I never really thought about it before but that’s a good point. I guess the fact that the military’s crimes are largely committed abroad rather than domestically is justification enough to worship them
“I break into people’s homes with weapons, threaten their families and rob their place, but the people are brown so it’s okay”