We staged fishing down here at Frank's Landing. This was a demonstration to put the problem

before the public.

Henry Hink Lyle Adams, age 77, a citizen of Fort Peck, a Syniboy-ASu tribes in Montana,

began his journey to the Spirit World on December 21st, 2020.

He is known to the indigenous activist community

as Hank Adams.

In 1961 at the University of Washington, Adams began protesting for treaty rights and against termination.

He joined the fishing rights struggle with the Quinalt nation.

And during the fame 1963 March on Washington, Hank Adams teamed up with National

Indian Youth Council Executive Secretary Bruce Wilkie to bring actor Marlon Brando to Frank's landing on the Niskali River and into a coalition of 37

Northwest tribes for a mass public demonstration in Olympia in January to March of 1964. in being waged by the Niskali, Paliup, Muckleshoot, and Quilute tribes following brutal

state assaults on their fishing families dating from January 1962 and the filing of injunctions against them.

This began Adam's lifelong relationship with the Franks' landing Indian community and its

leaders, Miseel, and Billy Frank Jr.

The Treaty Fishing Wars, as they became known, led to the 1974 Bolt decision that upheld

indigenous fishing rights according to treaty, which was a huge windfall not just for the northwest tribes but for all indigenous people who exercise traditional and customary hunting rights over their indigenous territories.

Adams is also famous for writing the 20 points program, a landmark document of the Trail of Broken Treaties March to Washington, D.C. in 1972, of which

he also negotiated a peaceful exit so to speak from the BIA takeover building and the A

A A Red Power activists who led that march.

And he is credited with negotiating the resolution

of the 1973 siege at Wounded Knee

on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

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