The drive from Portland to Seattle just became a little less like visiting Truth Social. That’s because the infamous “Uncle Sam” billboard along I-5 in Napavine, Wash.—a source of roadside right-wing deep thoughts since the 1960s—now bears a much simpler message.

NATIVE LAND

#CHEHALIS

It’s both a land acknowledgment and, literally, “land back,” albeit at a price: the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation purchased the 3.5-acre commercial property on which the billboard sits in June for $2.5 million cash. As Kai Uyehara of the Seattle Times reported then, the tract is historically significant to the tribe inasmuch as it was theirs until the 19th century, and also has developmental value.

But to most people who pass through the Centralia/Chehalis corridor while travelling b

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