Tribe seeks help from Obama

Author:
ICT Staff
Updated:
Sep 12, 2018
Original:
Mar 6, 2009

With their survival as a tribe hanging in the balance, the Duwamish are making pleas for help to President Obama and to the people of Seattle. The Bush administration declared the Duwamish -- the indigenous people of Seattle

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