Chapter Eleven of “Where the Salmon Run” written by Trova Heffernan and sponsored by Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed. Chapter Eleven | The Politics of Salmon Indian tribes had long made a villain out of Slade Gorton. The intellectual Dartmouth graduate, who earned his law degree at Columbia University Law School, first jumped into Washington State politics as […]
Chapter Nine of “Where the Salmon Run” written by Trova Heffernan and sponsored by Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed. Chapter Nine | The Shelf Life of Treaties The battle over Indian fishing rights appeared interminable in 1973, an assembly line of expensive court cases that had cycled through the American justice system for decades. […]
It was yesterday that we re-posted the beginning of the biography on Billy Franks, titled Where Salmon Run by Trova Heffernan, in memory of his life even as the aboriginal fishing activist passed away. The re-telling of the story was made possible by the Legacy Project in Washington. With the re-telling, we hope to help […]