Supporting Indigenous People
Here is a collection of resources to materially support local Indigenous people and tribes. While it is important to acknowledge the land and its peoples, we must put actions behind our words. First and foremost, that means showing up and building real relationships, and learning how to do so well. We hope these resources help you to do that.
Support Indigenous Artists
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Indigenous Creatives Collective is a gathering place for intertribal artists in the Pacific Northwest, dedicated to art-making, community care, and land stewardship. The nonprofit offers radically inclusive and equitable arts opportunities, including an online artist roster, exhibitions, grants, cultural workshops, land restoration activities, and other community-led projects. Donations go directly into their work to cultivate wellbeing for Indigenous artists, create a diverse, creative community and fund for events programming.
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Tidelands is a Native art gallery, podcast incubator, photography studio, community gathering space and boutique. Their vision is to create a thriving, Indigenous-owned creative space that redefines the narrative of Native America. Donations will directly support Indigenous artists by funding mentorship programs, expanding their Native art gallery, and developing their podcast studio and allow the organization to provide essential resources, professional development opportunities, and a platform for Indigenous creatives to share their stories and art with the world.
Support Indigenous Land Rematriation & Herbal Medicine
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Canoe Journey Herbalists is an Indigenous-centered, community supported project consisting of herbalists, healers, and dedicated volunteers. The organization strongly believes that access to knowledge of traditional medicine, ancestral connection, and health sovereignty are integral to healing personal and collective wounds of trauma and colonization. They are a completely non-for profit, grassroots volunteer based program that relies on funding from grants and community donations.
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Wild Hearts Native Sharing Garden is a community garden that offers skill shares, community land days, and BIPOC garden container giveaways.
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Rose Island Farm is a BIPOC centered & Indigenous family-owned and led teaching and sharing farm located on Puyallup Tribal Territory. Their mission is to share and engage in collective community (re)membering of Indigenous foods and healing ways as a sacred embodiment of our food sovereignty. Their offerings include handcrafted, seasonal products, skill share workshops and more to reconnect people to the land and First Foods.
Language Revitalization
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The Puyallup Language Program’s mission is to be kind, be helpful and be sharing in terms of revitalizing the Twulshootseed language by producing language users. This includes implementing various forms of communication including: conversational speech, language use in the home, language transmission to children, and public speaking.
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The Hibulb Cultural Center and Natural History Preserve’s mission is to revive, restore, protect, interpret, collect and enhance the history, traditional cultural values and spiritual beliefs of the Tulalip Tribes who are the successors in interest to the Snohomish, Snoqualmie and Skykomish tribes and other tribes and bands signatory to the Treaty of Point Elliott. The Tulalip Tribes Lushootseed Department is dedicated to increasing awareness of Lushootseed within the community and beyond, as well as to restoring the language to everyday use within the community.
Podcasts
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All My Relations is a podcast dedicated to exploring what it means to be a contemporary Native person. To be Indigenous is to be in relationship—to land, to ancestors, to non-human kin, and to one another. This podcast is a space to honor and investigate those relationships, and to think deeply about Indigeneity in all its complexity.
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The Indigenous Voices Podcast uplifts tribal voices in the telling of Puget Sound history, sharing tribal knowledge and expertise with wider audiences.
Advocacy
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Real Rent calls on people who live and work in Seattle to make rent payments to the Duwamish Tribe. All funds go directly to Duwamish Tribal Services (DTS) to support the revival of Duwamish culture and the vitality of the Duwamish Tribe.
Volunteer with the Suquamish Foundation
Support the Suquamish tribe and their foundation with events, fundraising, or administrative work.