Tohono O'odham Community Demands Justice for Slain Tribal Leader Killed on His Own Land

The Tohono O'odham Nation demands justice after the lack of prosecution in Raymond Mattia's death, seen as another example of lethal settler colonialism on Indigenous lands.

• The Tohono O'odham Nation is outraged after the U.S. Attorney's Office declined to prosecute Border Patrol agents who killed Raymond Mattia on the tribe's reservation.

• Mattia's death reflects the ongoing settler colonialism and militarization of the O'odham homeland, which spans the U.S.-Mexico border.

• The O'odham view Mattia's killing as part of a patter…