Several women, including a former tribal cop, said Nez Perce police didn't respond effectively to multiple reports of ...

Kenton Beckstead said dysfunction in the Nez Perce tribal law enforcement came to a head when a 28-year-old tribal citizen ...

Five former employees of the tribal justice system – including the system's former head – told Lee Enterprises that ...

Some on the Nez Perce Reservation, including former law-enforcement employees, believe investigators’ failures to listen to the women who reported Travis Ellenwood’s alleged abuse allowed his violence ...

He wondered if it was Bessie Blackeagle’s. Then he opened the notes from a call that had come in from Ellenwood at 5:30 p.m., in which he reported that his girlfriend wasn’t breathing.

Channa Henry, one of Bessie Blackeagle’s closest friends, pictured at her home on Friday, Feb. 21 in Nezperce, Idaho. Henry is a former member of the Nez Perce Tribal Police.