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as long as the rivers run 109months into 1969, staff members talked with Billy. In the governor’spapers at the State Archives, interviewers note: “Billy did not oncespeak with malice, but was as friendly ‘as an old shoe’ and appreciativeof any assistance that could be given. He did wonder whythe state has kept the nets of the acquitted and asked for assistance inthat area.”Among the conclusions of Evans’s committee: fishing is a matterof “great emotional importance” to the Indian people, the NisquallyTribe does support its members fishing off reservations, and attitudesof the state and county authorities toward Indians and their treatyrights are “excessively arbitrary and punitive.”When December arrived, Walter Neubrech, head of enforcementat the Department of Game, placed a call to the Bureau of IndianAffairs, expressing the state’s interest in purchasing Frank’s Landing.“He indicated that at the present time there were about 20 Hippiesgetting really entrenched in the area and this would be one way ofgetting them off the property.”The state never acquired the land.