The U.S. Navy is honoring one of the Nisqually Tribe’s most well-known activists, Billy Frank Jr. Last week, the Navy announced that it would be naming a Navajo-class ship in his honor. His son, Nisqually Tribe Chairman William Frank III, couldn’t be more proud. “This is just almost completing the whole circle of respecting our Native people, our Indigenous people who go and serve this great country,” he said.
More oil pipeline – tribal litigation. Both sides are in an ongoing dispute over the Line 5 cross-border pipeline and are appealing last month’s court decision in Wisconsin. That’s where a district court judge gave Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. three years to reroute the controversial pipeline around Indigenous territory south of Lake Superior. The Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa, however, insists the pipeline should be shut down sooner and wants the three-year timeline overturned.
Those are your headlines at this hour. I’m Colette Keith in the KIPI News center.
