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as long as the rivers run 97and respect. They brought with them the century of broken promisesand lies which represented their previous experience with governmentalleaders.”“Over the years, I grew to really admire and respect the tribes andgot really very close to an awful lot of the tribal leaders as time wenton,” Evans says today. “That initial skepticism began to diminish aswe began to make some progress. It took years.”The head of the Game Department, John Biggs, was pulled in everydirection. “I was pounding on him on one side,” Evans says. “TheGame Commission were some of the Good Old Boys and they wereall hunters and fishermen. The Game Department, obviously, representedthe sport hunters and the sport fisherman.”The mid-sixties brought more celebrities to Frank’s Landing.Known for his “biting brand of comedy that attacked racial prejudice,”Dick Gregory played a nightclub in Seattle when the invitation arrivedfrom Billy and other activists to join them at a Washington powwowin February 1966. The African American had sympathized with theIndian all of his life. He fished in Washington to correct an injustice,he says. “America had gone all over the world dropping bombs andupholding treaties. . . . Now we turn our backs on the Indian inAmerica, who is the oldest resident American, and say, ‘Your treatywas no good.’ . . . The day must come when America shows the sameconcern for her treaties with the Indians, as she does for her treatieswith other countries.” Gregory also knew something about hardknocks and fighting for what you’ve got. “When there was no fatbackto go with the beans, no socks to go with the shoes, no hope to gowith tomorrow, [Momma would] smile and say: ‘We ain’t poor, we’rejust broke.’”At the powwow, a fishing activist was hooked. Calling it a campaignof dignity for all men, Gregory headed to Olympia with his wife,Lillian.“I deplore these self-appointed guardians of the Indians’ fishingrights when they have little knowledge of what the situation is all