Presentation created for Archives Open House featuring interviews with former Washington State Senator Margaret Hurley, former Washington State Representative Kathryn Epton, and Josephj Garry, great grandson of Chief Spokane Garry.

1. “Garry was a
successful
farmer, and he
believed in
progress,
believed in
living a peaceful
life.”

2. “… the Indians were assumed, well that
they should have been moved to a
reservation rather than homesteading.”

5. “There has been times when the federal government‟s
policy on Indians is to liquidate their assets and to either
integrate them or assimilate them into the rest of the
population.”

6. “… the Indian‟s identity
should be retained.”

7. stuff

9. “When we can‟t
have the Indians
anymore... then
there‟s little
reason to
believe… that
our democracy
would survive.”

10. “I think people like a fighter. They like to have you stand up and say
what you feel, and to be committed to certain things and not be wishywashy, not be on both sides of the fence and not say well, „maybe yes
and maybe no.‟ That doesn‟t tell them a thing.”

12. “They know over the
years that I‟m with
them, and that I feel
like they did. I raised
my kids when they
were raising their
kids. I know how it
is to have a family. I
know how it is to
have three jobs.”

13. “[The Legislature] was discriminatory, I have to admit.
Men did not want you to be in the decision-making end
of it. There‟s a lot of jealousy over leadership roles.”

16. “Now look, I‟ve had
my hand up about ten
times. Are you going
to call on my or
aren‟t you? Do you
put my name
down, or don‟t you?
They couldn‟t just
discriminate like that
and have someone
call it to your
attention. ”

24. Margaret Hurley
Democrat, 3rd
District (Spokane
County), 1953 –
1979.
State Senator, 19791985

25. “One of my
opponents had
signs all over the
district: 'Elect a
man for a man's
job.'
But I won
anyway.”
- Kathryn Epton

29. Children can't
wait.”