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108as long as the rivers runon his doorstep. The mansion cook didn’t know what happened tothe “mystery” fish, but gibed that “there’d be no salmon cooking inher kitchen” that night.In October 1968, a force of state officers raided the continuingencampment at Frank’s Landing. “This thing is clear out of perspective,”fired R. D. Robison, a Fisheries assistant director. “They’renot concerned with Indian fishing rights. They’re trying to incite riots.”The community at Frank’s Landing viewed the encampment asdirect action, a tool to protect their treaty rights. State officers wereordered to leave the Frank trust property and informed they weretrespassing. Adams said the officers insisted they “have a right to goanywhere,” and brandished clubs. They directed a boat on the otherside of the river to take a net that belonged to Billy, his wife, and hisniece,” Adams wrote in an open letter to Governor Evans. Adamswarned the state’s chief executive that Willie Frank’s fear of the whiteshad since grown, and the state would not be permitted on the property.The letter noted the recent court order “prescribing haircuts forprisoners immediately upon entry into the Thurston County jail—citing sanitation as the basis. It seemed clearly evident, however, thatthe order was secured primarily to carry out the threats against AlBridges and other Indians, as well as non-Indians now involved inthe fight over fishing rights.” The situation grew so intense, Adamstold Evans in the same communication, that sessions took place inwhich Fisheries Department officers planned to “create an incidentwherein they could ‘justify’ homicides premeditated.”By October’s end, fishermen secured a guarantee from the JusticeDepartment that it would protect their civil rights. They removedarmed guards from the property. Money came in from benefit performancesby the Grateful Dead, Redbone, and James Taylor.Canadian Indian Buffy St. Marie arrived and wrote a song aboutthe fishermen.For his part, the governor had established a special fact-findinggroup on Indian Affairs which interviewed fishermen. A couple of