Seeing no reduction in the rioting by 2 a.m., a combined force of ninety-three officers and troopers from Pullman and Moscow tried to disperse the crowd with tear gas, smoke, and water. The officers retreated and called for backup, “giving the party a chance to cool down,” according to Pullman Police Chief Tim Weatherly. They also overturned portable toilets and lit bonfires on the street.
When police arrived at the scene, rioters pelted them with rocks, beer cans, and construction materials. Initially, two police officers were called at midnight to investigate a car-pedestrian accident at the intersection of Colorado and A streets. Ki is now retired in New Mexico, where he formerly chaired the advisory council on Indian education to the state board of education. He believes that traditional fishing rights, shoreline and mineral issues, and treaty rights transcend the reservation and are important to all people living in the Northwest. During his student days, he and his Native American peers pushed the University to recruit more Indian students from the state and provide the support services they needed to be successful. They have their own religion, own culture, own life and land,” says Tecumseh, a member of the Winnebago Indians of Nebraska. “Indian people don’t consider themselves to be a minority people. Many remembered him best as founder and first president of the Native American Students Association. While earning a degree (’72 Comm.), he served as an ASWSU senator and was an assistant instructor in a contemporary American Indian Studies class. You can be either a baker or a bricklayer.” Tecumseh applied for admission to Washington State University and was accepted. Growing up on the Yakama Indian Reservation, Kiutus “Ki” Tecumseh Jr. told his high school counselor that he wanted to go to college and was told, “You will fail. “My mother would say, ‘If you see two Chinese girls wandering around town, please tell them to come home.’” Their roaming was to the consternation of their parents. “My sister and I used to go exploring on campus and sometimes we would get lost,” says Lee. Life was a great adventure growing up in the shadow of a large university. Betty still lives in town.īetty says her mother was always taking pictures of her twins-when she could find them. They went on to have careers at the University, Betty working in the Agronomy department and Peggy with Extension.
Her sister Peggy also graduated from WSU. On occasion, he brought the family gifts, conferring on the girls the shirts, dolls, and balls.īetty Lee graduated from WSU in 1954 with a degree in general studies. Morrow was a regular customer at their restaurant, which served “American” food, says Betty Lee. Their parents, Don and Julia Lee, moved to Pullman in the 1930s and opened a restaurant, and later ran a small grocery on Maiden Lane.
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