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A rotating visual presentation featuring photos of Nisqually tribal elder and chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission Billy Frank Jr. are displayed at the Squaxin Island Event Center near Shelton, Wash as part of a May 11,2014 public memorial for the 83 year-old environmental and native fishing rights leader died on May 5th. (AP Photo/The Olympian, Steve Bloom)

Large crowd at memorial for Billy Frank Jr.

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FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2014 file photo, Billy Frank Jr. poses for a photo near Frank's Landing on the Nisqually River in Nisqually, Wash. Frank, a Nisqually tribal elder who was arrested dozens of times while trying to assert his native fishing rights during the Fish Wars of the 1960s and '70s, died Monday, May 5, 2014. He was 83. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Billy Frank Jr., tribal fishing activist, dies

By PHUONG LE and GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

Billy Frank Jr., leader of Northwest ‘fish wars’ that restored tribal rights, dies at 83

Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2014 file photo, Billy Frank Jr. poses for a photo near Frank's Landing on the Nisqually River in Nisqually, Wash. Frank, a Nisqually tribal elder who was arrested dozens of times while trying to assert his native fishing rights during the Fish Wars of the 1960s and '70s, died Monday, May 5, 2014. He was 83. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Billy Frank Jr., tribal fishing activist, dies

By GENE JOHNSON and PHUONG LE - Associated Press

Boldt decision has rippling effects 40 years later

By ROB CARSON - Associated Press

Billy Frank Jr., left, a Nisqually tribal elder who was arrested dozens of times while trying to assert his native fishing rights during the Fish Wars of the 1960s and '70s, poses for a photo Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, with Ed Johnstone, of the Quinault tribe, at Frank's Landing on the Nisqually River in Nisqually, Wash. They are holding a photo from the late 1960s of Frank and Don McCloud fishing on the river. Several Washington state lawmakers are pushing to give people arrested during the Fish Wars a chance to expunge their convictions from the record. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Bill would clear convictions during 60s fish-ins

By PHUONG LE - Associated Press