Marlon Brando might have been a great actor, but Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest remember his important role in defending Indian fishing rights. “The Indians who once stood in protest with Brando during Washington’s ‘Fish Wars’ of the 1960s, remembered him not as acclaimed movie star, but as a sensitive defender of civil rights. Marlon Brando was the first person of non-color to step forward to help us. Marlon Brando was ahead of his time.”