Seattle-based nonprofit news organization Crosscut awarded the late Billy Frank Jr. the David Brewster Lifetime Achievement Award this morning during its 2014 Courage Awards ceremony. Last week, Crosscut published a profile about Billy and his life’s work, interviewing tribal and environmental leaders and politicians. (more…)
Tonight’s broadcast of PBS NewsHour is scheduled to feature the Swinomish Tribe’s Climate Change Initiative and an interview with NWIFC Chairman Billy Frank Jr: Rising water temperatures don’t bode well for Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, who call themselves “Salmon People.” “Our economy was built around salmon,” said Frank, who is now chairman of […]
A Northwest take on the Nobel Peace Prize suggests NWIFC Chairman Billy Frank Jr. for the award: My Nobel Peace Prize candidate after tomorrow is also a Northwesterner: Billy Frank Jr. Frank was one of the seminal figures during the Indian fish-ins of the 1960s and 70s, a campaign that culminated in the 1974 Boldt […]
NWIFC Chairman Billy Frank Jr. is featured on the latest Washington Reads poster. Due to budget constraints, there are no free printed copies of the poster, but it can be downloaded for free from the State Library Web site. Print quality 11″ x 17″ posters can be purchased for a nominal fee from the Washington […]
The treaty tribes of western Washington look forward to continuing to work with Phil Anderson as director of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). Anderson was named the department’s permanent director Saturday by the nine-member commission Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission. Anderson had been serving as interim director since last December, when Jeff […]
