Indigenous Affairs Yakama Nation’s new public safety campus gives justice room to grow The tribal court system, which had occupied a cluster of trailers since the ’50s, plans to add services like a mental health or a veterans court. by Nika Bartoo-Smith Underscore News and ICT / January 9, 2024
Equity Snoqualmie Tribe starts land protection sales tax at Salish Lodge The 2% tax will preserve ancestral sites such as Snoqualmie Falls, and could be a model for other Indigenous nations. by Nika Bartoo-Smith Underscore/ICT / July 17, 2023
News The Washington mental health lifeline made for and by Native people The Native and Strong Lifeline provides connection and culturally specific care to callers in crisis. by Nika Bartoo-Smith Indian Country Today and Underscore News / June 19, 2023
Equity What Seattle’s redlining history tells us about wealth today VIDEO: Historian James Gregory tells us about the racist policy, when it ended and where its impacts are still being felt. by Eric Keto / November 9, 2018
Equity Separated at the border, mother and son reunite at Sea-Tac VIDEO: Yolany Padilla, one of 55 parents detained in Washington, was the first parent to be released and reunited with her 6-year-old son. by Lilly Fowler & Eric Keto / July 14, 2018
Equity When the ‘American Hitler’ came to Washington Knute Berger explores the dark history of the Silver Shirts, a fascist splinter group that fielded a presidential candidate in 1936. by Eric Keto & Knute Berger / May 29, 2018
