On the morning of March 8, 1970, members of the United Indians of All Tribes scaled the fences surrounding Fort Lawton, an army base located at Discovery Point continguous to the city of Seattle. The fort was slated to be decommissioned and the city intended to turn it into a park. After first trying to persuade the city and federal officials that the land should be returned to Native people, Bernie Whitebear and the UNIAT took action. Seven years later, Daybreak Star Cultural Center opened in a section of what had become Discovery Park. The struggle for Fort Lawton is detailed in two essays that are part of this project: By Right of Discovery: United Indians of All Tribes Retakes Fort Lawton, 1970 by Lossom Allen; United Indians of All Tribes Meets the Press: News Coverage of the 1970 Occupation of Fort Lawton by Karen Smith

Here is a digital archive of  the news coverage that accompanied the Fort Lawton struggle, fully readable articles that appeared in Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, UW Daily, Bremerton Sun, Awkesansne Notes, Seattle Medium, Seattle Weekly and other newspapers between 1970 and 1985 (click the titles to read the articles).

Karen Smith and Lossum Allen collected most of these articles. Michael Schulze-Oechtering built this database.