We’re pleased to announce our Youth Gathering of Native Americans (GONA) starting August 17th. All Native youth in middle and high school are invited to attend this virtual event! Youth that attend every day and live in King County can received up to $60 in gift cards for participating ($20 per all-day event)! The GONA … Continue reading 2020 Youth Gathering of Native Americans
Join Seattle Indian Health Board’s Traditional Health Department’s series of online classes about Traditional Food and Plant Medicines! About the Program American Indian and Alaska Native peoples from across this land have used indigenous medicines over generations to maintain physical, emotional, social and spiritual health. Learn about indigenous traditional foods and plant medicines that are … Continue reading Traditional Food and Plant Medicine, Online Classes
SEATTLE—Leaders from Seattle Indian Health Board, Chief Seattle Club, and United Indians of All Tribes Foundation are calling for the acts of violence at Seattle City Councilwoman Debora Juarez’s home to end. Juarez, the first Indigenous woman ever elected to the Seattle City Council, has challenged a proposal to defund the Seattle Police Department by … Continue reading Seattle Native organizations call for violence against Seattle Councilmember Debora Juarez to end
We have always been data gatherers. We have always been the scientists who analyze the data and we have always been the community that participated in the analysis to ensure the well-being of our future generations.Abigail Echo-Hawk How do we gather data in a good way? This week, Abigail Echo-Hawk, the Chief Research Officer at … Continue reading Flash Forward Podcast: Dollars for Data
For Immediate Release—July 8, 2020 SEATTLE—In a letter sent to Mayor Jenny Durkan, four urban Indian organizations called for the removal of Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers from the City of Seattle’s Navigation Team—a group comprised of outreach workers and SPD personnel, whose goal is to connect unsheltered people to housing and critical resources, while … Continue reading Urban Indian organizations demand removal of Seattle police officers from outreach team supporting homeless
https://youtu.be/iM708oNixes Amid the Black Lives Matter movement and renewed calls for police reform, we hosted a discussion between Esther Lucero, our CEO, and Brandy Grant, Director of Programming at the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, on police brutality, reform, and allyship among communities of color. Brandy Grant was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma and moved … Continue reading Black X Indigenous Solidarity: a Discussion with Brandy Grant and Esther Lucero
We at Seattle Indian Health Board are here to kneel in solidarity with our black brothers and sisters against the long-standing police violence and the continued oppression against black and brown lives. This is a public health crisis and should be given the attention of such. – Dr. Socia Love-Thurman (Cherokee, Delaware, Yuchi) Last Friday, … Continue reading White Coats for Black Lives
As an Indigenous organization, Seattle Indian Health Board condemns systemic and overt racism, and the unjust killings of George Floyd, Manuel Ellis, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and the countless others who have been the victims of anti-Blackness and police brutality. As Indigenous people, we stand in solidarity with the movement toward Black Liberation. We send … Continue reading Seattle Indian Health Board stands in solidarity with our Black relatives.
Seattle, WA, June 3, 2020 — On behalf of the organizations that make up Seattle Urban Native Nonprofits, we express our resolute support for the Metropolitan Urban Indian Directors (MUID), and the communities you serve, in the pursuit of justice for George Floyd, and all people of color, who have been victims of the Minneapolis … Continue reading Seattle Urban Native Nonprofits: Statement of Solidarity and Support for All Our Relations and Allies in Minneapolis
We want to thank our community here in Seattle and nationwide for all the support they have shown during this pandemic and in connection with the recent incident where we received supplies we were not expecting. While waiting for more COVID-19 tests and personal protective equipment (PPE), we received a box of body bags. … Continue reading Affirming our gratitude and clarifying our request for supplies
