‘A leading light for tribes throughout the region’
Credit: Lorraine Loomis, chairperson of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, speaks with Billy Frank Jr. at his 83rd birthday party in 2014. Loomis spend more than 40 years as a fisheries commissioner, fighting for treaty fishing rights and salmon habitats, and replaced Frank as chair in 2014. Loomis died Aug. 10, 2021. Frank died in 2014. (Photo by Debbie Preston, courtesy of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission)
