Neighbors Dispute Police Account of Shooting of Native Man in Seattle

Renee Roman Nose
April 03, 2013
Courtney Lewis lives in what had been until last month a pretty quiet Seattle neighborhood...

Brothers of Keewatinawin, Fatally Shot Kiowa Man, Say They Now Know He Was Not Threatening Their Father

Renée Roman Nose
March 07, 2013
Jack Sun Keewatinawin, 21, was shot by Seattle Police Department officers on February 26 th near the North Seattle home he shared with his father Henry Lee Northwind, when he confr...

Native With Mental Illness Fatally Shot as Seattle Police Respond to 911 Calls

ICTMN Staff
March 01, 2013
On February 26, Seattle Police made news again as they answered 911 calls for a domestic disturbance which ended in the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old mentally ill Cree man accord...

The Most Important Stories of 2012

ICTMN Staff
December 31, 2012
The most widely read stories aren't always the most important ones. We recently published our list of 2012's most popular stories by page views ...

2012 Retrospective: February

ICTMN Staff
December 19, 2012
Take a look back at February 2012's biggest stories from the pages of our weekly magazine, This Week From Indian Country Today ...

Seattle Judge Moves Forward With Police Department Monitor Search

ICTMN Staff
August 25, 2012
News broke this week that a Seattle federal judge who is overseeing a historic settlement between the city and the Department of Justice that looks to cut down on excessive force w...
Chris Stearns

Self-Determination, LBJ and UNDRIP

On a sunny September day in New York City in 2007, the United Nations General Assembly gathered to adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peo...

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May 10, 2012

Trayvon Martin Case Another Example of Black and Native Communities Sharing Unfortunate Effects of Racial Profiling

Vincent Schilling
April 12, 2012
On February 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, as he returned from a nearby store where he had bought som...

From Tragedy Comes Beauty: Memorial Pole Erected for John T. Williams

Richard Walker
February 27, 2012
A storm of outrage ripped through Seattle after the shooting death of Ditidaht First Nation carver John T. Williams on August 30, 2010 by a city policeman...

No Federal Criminal Charges to Be Filed in Woodcarver’s Shooting

Wawmeesh Hamilton
January 14, 2012
Federal prosecutors have closed the case against the former Seattle Police Department officer who shot and killed a Nuu-Chah-Nulth woodcarver in 2010. U.S...

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