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as long as the rivers run 107Bridge. Indians and their supporters stood shoulder-to-shoulder infront of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Adams, running for Congress atthe time as a Republican, revved up the crowd behind a bullhorn.Billy is shown sitting on a rock when police appear.“They packed me up the bank and threw me in the sheriff’s car,”Billy recalls, before breaking into a grin. “Adams, the Fearless Fos,comes flying into the police car,” he adds. Billy calls Adams “FearlessFos” often and everywhere. The nickname stuck years ago, taken froma character in the immortal Dick Tracy cartoons. He’s “pure, underpaidand purposeful” the creator said of his character.“What the hell are you doing here?” Billy asked Adams that dayin the police car. Adams was the organizer in charge of the demonstration.“We’re going to jail.”Billy tells how officers then tossed “some white kid” into the policecar for asking them too many questions about Indians. “What thehell are you doing here?” Billy quipped.In 1968, Frank’s Landing activists and supporters staged emotionaldemonstrations at the Temple of Justice and the ThurstonCounty courthouse. “Now another beautiful young red sister, SuzetteBridges,” a woman said as she introduced Billy’s niece to the crowd.Bridges, a young enrolled Puyallup Indian, delivered an impassionedspeech:“When we go out and talk to all these citizens of America, we tellthem, ‘You’d better do something about your government, becauseyour government is awfully sick. And it’s trying to make my peoplesick.’ I keep trying to explain to these people that we’re never, never,never going to be like them.”Tears streamed down her cheeks as she cried to the crowd, “I don’tknow what’s wrong with Dan Evans! And I don’t know what’s wrongwith Thor Tollefsen! Why is it that they keep practicing genocide onmy people?” That day, activists dropped a parting gift for the governor