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Lummi hosts largest potlatch in 70 years

Indian Country Today quotes Billy Frank Jr. and Suquamish Chairman Leonard Forsman in this article about the Lummi potlatch: Billy Frank Jr., chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, beamed as he looked out over the thousands of people crowding the beach at Lummi July 30. ”It is one of the greatest days in our […]

Being Frank: At The Confluence Of The Centuries

Being Frank

The confluence of the centuries should be like the joining of two rivers. As they merge, the memories of countless moments and places should fold one unto another, and form a deeper, broader flow of knowledge. As the 19th Century merged into the 20th, my father was a young man. He lived his whole life […]