Provided by Dr. Zoltán Grossman
Details of the Billy Frank, Jr. memorials, from the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (NWIFC): “A public viewing will be held on SATURDAY, May 10 from noon to 5 p.m. at Mills and Mills Funeral Home, 5725 Littlerock Road SW, Tumwater.
Funeral services for Billy Frank Jr. will be held 10 a.m. SUNDAY, May 11 in the Squaxin Island Tribe’s event center at the Little Creek Casino Resort, 91 W State Route 108, Shelton. He will be interred at the Chief Leschi Cemetery [Nisqually], 2249 Reservation Road, just north of the ballfields. A dinner will follow at the Squaxin Tribe’s event center.
LIVESTREAM of Sunday memorial services (10 am-12 noon Pacific):
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/889018/events/2980650
DONATIONS are being accepted by the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission for the Billy Frank Services Fund. Send donations to the NWIFC, 6730 Martin Way E., Olympia, Wash. 98516. http://www.nwifc.org Donations can also be made to the Billy Frank Jr. Salmon Forever Fund in care of Salmon Defense, PO Box 7431, Olympia, Wash. http://salmondefense.org/salmon-forever-fund/ ”
BACKGROUND:
The Life and Legacy of Billy Frank, Jr.
(you can add memories here):
http://billyfrankjr.org/
Obituary in the Olympian:
http://www.theolympian.com/2014/05/06/3118975/tribal-fishing-activist-led-fight.html
As Long as the Rivers Run
(1971 documentary by the late Carol Burns):
View 1-hour film at https://archive.org/details/AsLongAsTheRiversRun
Where the Salmon Run: The Life and Legacy of Billy Frank, Jr.
(by Trova Heffernan, Washington State Heritage Center Legacy Project, 2012)
http://www.sos.wa.gov/legacyproject/oralhistories/BillyFrankJr/
PDF text at http://www.sos.wa.gov/legacyproject/oralhistories/BillyFrankJr/pdf/complete.pdf
Messages from Frank’s Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way
(by Charles Wilkinson, University of Washington Press, 2000)
https://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/WILMES.html
Statement by President Obama
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/05/statement-president-passing-billy-frank-jr