Looking Back’s theme for 2024 was Many Streams, celebrating our rich and diverse history. Nisqually Tribal elder William Frank, Sr., father of activist Billy Frank Jr., poles a canoe on the Nisqually River. This photograph from 1962 accompanied a Daily Olympian profile of Frank, Sr., in which he lamented the struggles of the Nisqually Tribe and the fisheries resource it traditionally relied on for sustenance.
The Olympian photo, 1962, Courtesy State Capital Museum collection, Washington State Historical Society, catalog C1986.43.62.3.21.5.1
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2024