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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 23:24:33 EST
Subject: Obituaries in the News
Obituaries in the News
.c The Associated Press
TAHOLAH, Wash. (AP) -- Jim ``Jug'' Jackson, hereditary chief and longtime
leader of the Quinault Indian Nation, was found dead Friday at age 81.
Jackson, a logger, shake mill operator and for more than 20 years the
chairman of the Olympic Peninsula tribe, was found dead of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound at his home, said tribal President Pearl Capoeman-Baller, and
Joe DeLaCruz, who followed Jackson as president from 1972 to 1994.
A Democratic Party activist, he and his wife, Mary, were seated among the
dignitaries at the 1960 inauguration of President John F. Kennedy,
Capoeman-Baller said.
Jackson's great-grandfather, Chief Taholah, and another ancestor, Chief Kape,
were the first two signers of the 1855 Quinault River Treaty with the United
States.
The treaty established a 10,000-acre reservation that today covers 211,000
acres of rain forest and rugged coastline about 75 miles north of the mouth
of the Columbia River.
A lawsuit over the federal government's logging practices that Jackson helped
organize was settled for $26 million in the early 1990s, DeLaCruz said. The
tribe also briefly closed 28 miles of coastline because of litter problems,
and still restricts beach access.
Survivors include his wife, Mary; four sons, a daughter, 14 grandchildren and
16 great-grandchildren.
Wilson Riles
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