Kullauq Kalluk Snyder

Death by Force

On April 3, 2016, 16-year-old Alaskan Native, male Kullauq “Kalluk” Snyder was reported dead in Noorvik, a small Iñupiat community along the Kobuk River. He was found on a trail outside town limits, the kind of narrow track locals use to move between homes and the river, the tundra still locked in late-winter cold. Brief public notices recorded that he had been shot and killed; a memorial page later fixed the place and date—Noorvik, April 3—and marked him as a teenager whose life ended ...Read More

Kullauq Kalluk Snyder