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240the catalystHank Adams personal collectionU.S. Senator Dan Inouye tours Pacific Northwest Indian Country with closeallies Billy Frank Jr. and Patricia Zell.Around meetings, Inouye, Zell, Billy, and his wife, Sue Crystal, metfor breakfast or lunch at a restaurant near what was then the TacomaSheraton. On one occasion, the senator handed the waitress his creditcard. “When the waitress approached the table, she eyed both menclosely,” Zell recalls. “Then, she stepped back looking mystified.” Thecredit card clearly belonged to a U.S. senator.The waitress looked directly at Billy. “Which senator are you?”Zell says Inouye appeared somewhat taken aback by the assumption,but the faux pas never bruised his ego. The story still gets laughs.Inouye and Billy also collaborated on a struggle for treaty rightsin Wisconsin not unlike the conflict in the Pacific Northwest. TheChippewa Indians have a long history spearing spawning walleyedpike on the lakes of Wisconsin, boarding their canoes with lanterns