A father teaches his son that if it can be done, it will be done

Published: April 4, 2020, 5 p.m.

This story originally aired on February 23, 2019. In 1989, Washington marked 100 years as an official state. Leading up to the milestone, state leaders held meetings about what the celebration should look like. Emmett Sampson Oliver, a member of the Quinault Indian Nation, attended one of the planning sessions. At the end of the meeting, his son Marvin Oliver recalls, Emmett stood up and asked everyone in the room: "Wait a minute, what are you doing for indians?" Marvin, a Seattle-based artist,