Naval ship will honor tribal rights leader Billy Frank Jr. :

Billy Frank Jr., a Nisqually elder arrested more than 50 times as a central figure in the fight for tribal fishing rights and environmental protections in the Pacific Northwest, now will have a USNS ship named after him.

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