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Suzette Bridges

AKA: Suzette Mills
Released
Gender:Female
Race:Native American
Era:1960s
State:Washington
Support
Indigenous Sovereignty
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Biography

Suzette Bridges, later Suzette Mills, was a Nisqually activist from the Frank’s Landing family at the center of the treaty fishing-rights struggle. She organized support for the 1968 fish-in encampment and traveled with Hank Adams to build alliances for the campaign. Although accounts describe repeated arrests within the Bridges family and substantial bail costs for arrested fishers, the reviewed records do not identify a specific jail booking or custodial sentence for Suzette, so no time-served counter is entered.

Case

Charges: Treaty fishing-rights activity at Frank’s Landing
Arrested: September 1968
Sentence: No individual jail booking or confinement established in the reviewed records.
Convicted: Yes