A bronze statue of the Nisqually tribal fishing rights activist heads to D.C. next year; first a model of the piece stops in Spokane

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Haiying Wu’s model for the Billy Frank Jr. statue is coming to Marmot Art Space.

It’s a long road from the little patch of Indian trust land called Frank’s Landing on the lower Nisqually River to Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C., but Billy Frank Jr. blazed his own trail to Congress and is about to be recognized for that epic journey. The Nisqually fishing rights activist and environmental crusader will be enshrined as one of Washington state’s two representatives in the 100-person gallery of historically

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