John Christian Hopkins

Honesty and Crimes: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

One of my favorite things to do each month – besides taking a shower – is to read the Crime Waves section of The Four Corners Free Press in Cortez, Colorado.

They represent the drama, comedy and tragedy of real life....

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February 15, 2013

National Book Award Goes to Louise Erdrich for The Round House

ICTMN Staff
November 15, 2012
Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich’s novel The Round House has won the National Book Award for fiction, the National Book Foundation announced on November 14...

Worldwide Observances to Mark Annual Sisters in Spirit Vigil for Aboriginal Women

ICTMN Staff
October 04, 2012
International voices will be raised today along with those of Canadian aboriginals for the annual Sisters in Spirit Vigil to be held collectively across Turtle Island and beyond...

Oldest DNA Match in Interpol’s History Links Dead American Convict to Highway of Tears Victim

Wawmeesh Hamilton
September 28, 2012
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have linked the DNA of a deceased American convict who had a history of violent offences against women to at least one victim from British ...

Hoopa Tribe Helps Destroy 26,600 Marijuana Plants Invading Sacred Land

ICTMN Staff
August 10, 2012
As if sanctioned industrial development on sacred tribal lands weren’t enough, the Hoopa Tribe in California is also contending with desecration by organized crime growing marijuan...

National Native Women’s Summit Announced to Tackle Inequality and Violence

David P. Ball
July 31, 2012
Unequal economic and social conditions for indigenous women in Canada will be the focus of a national conference to be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, from November 1–2...
Scott Seaborne

Crime Data Misrepresented to Serve Hidden Tribal Agenda

On July 23, 2008, Senator Byron Dorgan (D-NE), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (SCIA), introduced a bill titled ...

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June 14, 2012

Missing Women Inquiry Hearings End Amid Cover-Up Charges From Victims’ Families

David P. Ball
June 15, 2012
Eight months after they began, hearings into police failures to arrest British Columbia serial killer Robert Pickton earlier wrapped up on June 6 much as they began: with outraged ...

RCMP and Aboriginal Authorities Conduct Drug Raid on Odanak First Nation

ICTMN Staff
May 30, 2012
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) participated in a raid to dismantle what authorities said was a drug trafficking ring in the Abenaki community of Odanak First Nation on May 30...

Organization of American States Joins International Scrutiny of Canada's Missing Aboriginal Women

David P. Ball
May 11, 2012
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is scrutinizing the disappearance of more than 600 aboriginal women in Canada, only months after the United Nations announced ...

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