- 5.1.2--TNT0003N
- 05/01/1975
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Norwegian Festival
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Norwegian Festival
Vietnamese (Refugees, Etc.) - 1
A child throws a frisbee while at Camp Murray. Vietnamese refugees moved to the Tacoma area in search of new jobs and with them came their families.
Vietnamese (Refugees, Etc.) - 3
Son Deth, a Cambodian refugee, with two of her nine children. Son Deth moved with her family to Pierce County in 1975 and was sponsored by the Christ Lutheran Church of Lakewood.
Vietnamese (Refugees, Etc.) - 4
Chef Leonard Travka dishes out food to Vietnamese refugees at Camp Murray.
Vietnamese (Refugees, Etc.) - 5
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Kiem Van Dao
Photograph by Bob Rudsit
Vietnamese (Refugees, Etc.) - 6
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--Statue of Love and Gratitude--
Sai Dinh Nguyen works on a statue of love and gratitude that he and Khuyen Van Hoang molded from 1,200 pounds of concrete. It isn't known yet where the statue will be placed, though some consideration has been given to moving it to a community center at Bayview, WA.
Vietnamese (Refugees, Etc.) - 8
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--New Life--
A plastic bathtub is something new to Vietnamese refugees Long Vo and his wife, Lahn, both 21, who arrived in Wenatchee last month. They are starting a new life with their 2-year-old daughter, Tien, and infant son.
Vietnamese (Refugees, Etc.) - 9
A child sleeps at Sea-Tac Airport after an 11-hour flight from Hong Kong. They were among 300 refugees who had arrived in early June 1979 at Sea-Tac Airport.
Vietnamese (Refugees, Etc.) - 10
A Vietnamese refugee holds her belongings following an 11-hour flight from Hong Kong
Bennett, Ramona (Puyallup) - 2
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Ramona Bennett
Staff photo by Jerry Buck
Bennett, Ramona (Puyallup) - 10
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Ramona Bennett shown with her daughter, Ee-Nuck-A-Mee, 7, is best known for her years of activism as Chairwomen of the Puyallup Tribe in Tacoma, Wash. Today, Ms. Bennett is Director of Family Services at the Seattle Indian Center where her job involves finding Indian foster homes for homeless Indian children.
Staff photo by Bruce Kellman
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Tom Dixon
Staff photo by Jerry Buck
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Tom Dixon, president of the Tacoma Urban League speaks to the media. The Rev. J.A. Boles sits beyond. These men delivered a statement to the press after conferring with other Black community leaders at St. John Baptist Church. The subject is police procedures and the shooting of a Black purse snatching suspect.
Staff photo by Peter Haley
Landry, Gabriel (Puyallup Indian) -1
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Gabriel Landry (Puyallup Indian)
Smitherman, Bill (D-Tacoma) - 3
TACOMA., Washington -- A WINNER -- Bill Smitherman, left, won his race for a seat in the Washington House of Representatives, to become the only Black in that legislative body. His father, Willy Joel Smitherman, right, also ran for a House seat, but lost.
Associated Press Photo
Smitherman, Bill (D-Tacoma) - 5
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Rep. Bill Smitherman, center
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DEAD AT 66--Yakima Indian fishing rights activist David Sohappy Senior stands on the bank of the Columbia River in front of an old fishing platform at Cooks Landing, Washington, in this November 1990 file photo. Sohappy died Monday at Hood River Care Center in Oregon. Sohappy had been in ill health since suffering a stroke in 1988.
Associated Press File Photo, 1990
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WHITE SWAN, WASHINGTON -- SOHAPPY BURIED -- Mourners circle the grave of David Sohappy Sr. during his funeral service Thursday on the Yakima Indian Reservation. Sohappy, a well-known fishing rights activist, died on Monday.
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The Rev. George Stallings conducts services at the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church/ Stallings has broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and has founded his own Imani Temple in Washington D.C.
NEWS/MAYNARD; Staff Photo by Bill Hunter
Sterud, Bill (Puyallup Tribal Official) - 1
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Bill Sterud
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Photo by Bruce A. Kellman
Herd, Damon (Tacoma's 1st black fire marshall) - 1
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"Damon Herd, the Tacoma Fire Dept's 1st black Fire Marshal, stands before a fire truck at the station that also is home to his office (901 Fawcett)."
Herd is 36 years old in the photo and became a firefighter in 1971. According to Herd, he was a part of the first group of minority applicants that the Tacoma Fire Department recruited in the early 1970s.
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Nez Perce tribe member Jo Ann Kauffman, Executive Director of the Seattle Indian Health Board, poured a can of Treaty Beer into a garbage can. She appeared at a press conference condemning the new product and said the can contained "Hate and prejudice." Conference was at Indian center near Fort Lawton.
Bruce Kellman/News
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Indians on foot in Grandstand with bows and arrows.
Part of Washington State Fair Collection
Fully costumed Indians on horseback parading through Grandstand.
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Native Americans parading on horseback around Grandstand.