Marcus Whitman statue will be replaced by treaty rights activist Billy Frank Jr.

OLYMPIA — The statue of Marcus Whitman will officially leave the U.S. Capitol, soon replaced by Washington tribal treaty rights activist Billy Frank Jr.

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Wed., April 14, 2021

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, file photo Billy Frank Jr., 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 while holding a late 1960s photo of himself, left, fishing with Don McCloud, near Frank's Landing on the Nisqually River in Nisqually, Wash. Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, signed a measure that starts the process of honoring the late Frank, who championed treaty rights and protecting the environment with a statue at the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) ORG XMIT: LA302

Ted S. Warren
Marcus Whitman at the US Capitol and in the state Capitol.

Jim Camden For The Spokesman_Review
Portrait of Marcus Whitman by Alfred McVay Walla Walla Wash

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The Marcus Whitman statue photographed on July, 15, 2019.

Carolyn Lamberson
The Marcus Whitman statue in Washington, D.C. photographed on Wednesday, April 14, 2021.

Orion Donavan-Smith
The Marcus Whitman statue photographed on Wednesday, April 14, 2021.

Orion Donavan-Smith
The Marcus Whitman statue is seen in 2021 in Washington, D.C. Seattle artist Hai Ying Wu has been selected to design a statue of Nisqually tribal member Billy Frank Jr., who died in 2014, to replace the Whitman statue in Washington, D.C.

Orion Donavan-Smith The Spokesman_Review