1. Lucy Friedlander Covington was a Native American tribal leader and political activist.
10 Facts About Lucy Covington
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Lucy Covington was a member of the Colville tribe which has a reservation in north-eastern Washington state.
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Lucy Covington was the daughter of Nellie Moses and Louis T Friedlander Sr.
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Lucy Covington sold some of her cattle and used the money to fund her repeated trips to Washington, DC where she fought to prevent Senator Henry M Jackson of Washington from passing the termination bill.
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Lucy Covington utilized unique methods and strategies to gain support for her cause.
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Whenever a tribal council member would present an outline for termination to Congress, Lucy Covington protested, and in 1968 she created an anti-termination platform for the tribal election.
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Lucy Covington enlisted the help of the Menominee leader Jim White to speak to her tribe about the actual effects of termination.
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Lucy Covington had successfully changed her tribal mindset, and the new council stamped out the termination bill for good in 1971.
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Lucy Covington's efforts engendered a shift of US policy from termination to independence and autonomy.
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In 1982, when she was seventy-one years old, Lucy Covington died of pulmonary fibrosis.