In a weekend press conference, Tom Wheatland, national spokesperson for the American Alliance For the Bored and Obese, announced to eager reporters and restaurant insiders that 2013 will be the year that we all give Pretzel Buns a try.
After Chili’s, Sonic, Wendy’s, Ruby Tuesday, Dunkin’ Donuts,
Whistalks Way Community Celebration
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Who was Whist-alks?
Whist-alks, whose name means walks in a dress,” was the wife of Qualchan, a Yakama sub-chief who was ordered hanged by Col. George Wright in 1858. According to historical reports, Whist-alks attempted to resist her and Qualchan s capture.
Wright led a violent campaign to suppress Native American resistance to the spread of white settlers in the mid-19th century.
Fort George Wright Drive is now Whistalks Way.
The name change, an acknowledgment of the brutality imposed on Native American tribes in Spokane by Col. George Wright and the United States government, was approved unanimously by the Spokane City Council on Monday.