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“Indian Street will likely be renamed Billy Frank Jr. Street, after the Bellingham City Council asked staff to make the change.
Council member Terry Bornemann requested the change, which was supported by the full council at its Monday, June 15, meeting.
Council member Roxanne Murphy, a member of the Nooksack Indian Tribe, said she supported changing the name of the street as much as she supported honoring Billy Frank Jr., whose activism in the 1960s and ’70s led to a major strengthening of tribal fishing rights under the Boldt court ruling. The decision recognized Washington tribes’ rights to half the fish harvests under their 1850s-era treaties.”
– Bellingham Herald, Bellingham Council: Change Indian St. to Billy Frank Jr. St..
“The Bellingham City Council voted unanimously in favor of renaming Indian Street to Billy Frank Jr. Street, a Nisqually tribe member and environmental and treaty rights activist.
During a city council meeting on Monday, June 15, council members Terry Bornemann and Roxanne Murphy motioned to go forward with the process to implement the street name change.
“We have not honored the First Nation leaders, so I started working with some of the members of the Lummi Nation about looking at appropriate names for a street name,” City Councilmember Terry Bornemann said.
Bornemann said he didn’t want to choose a leader from a single nation and instead wanted the name to be inclusive of all the Native American tribes in the surrounding area.
“And then it came to me about Billy Frank Jr., whom I have met a few times. And he was one of the biggest civil rights, human rights, treaty rights people among the Coast Salish tribes here.””
– Western Front Online, Indian Street to be renamed after Billy Frank Jr..
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Indian Country 52 is a weekly project by David Bernie that uses the medium of posters that promote issues and stories in Indian Country.
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