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Billy Frank Jr. in, Marcus Whitman out as part of U.S. Capitol statue swap


NWIFC, 2007/Glenn Drosendahl
In a time of reckoning about historical monuments, Washington state lawmakers found a bipartisan path to change out a prominent statue. A bill signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday begins the process of putting a statue of the late tribal treaty rights activist Billy Frank Jr. in the U.S. Capitol.
The Frank statue would replace one of Oregon Trail pioneer Marcus Whitman. The larger-than-life bronze of Whitman has stood in the U.S. Capitol s Statuary Hall for nearly 70 years.
Each state is allowed to represent itself on Capitol Hill by contributing two bronze or marble historical figures to the national statuary collection. ....

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Proposed statue swap of Billy Frank for Marcus Whitman signals changing of the guard


NWIFC, 2007/Glenn Drosendahl
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Leaders of seven Pacific Northwest tribes testified this week in favor of replacing a statue of Oregon Trail pioneer and missionary Marcus Whitman in the U.S. Capitol. A proposal pending in the Washington Legislature would install a statue of the late Native rights activist Billy Frank Jr. in Whitman s place of honor.
Every U.S. state gets to choose two prominent figures to put in the National Statuary Hall Collection. In the early 1950s, Washington state delivered a larger-than-life bronze of Marcus Whitman. As sculpted by Arvard Fairbanks, the buckskin-clad Presbyterian missionary and frontier doctor strikes a heroic pose with Bible in one hand and saddlebags in the other. ....

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