4th Quarter 2013

The Growing Our Own Native American Students, Staff and Faculty (GONASF) program was supported by a grant from Indian Health Services (U26IHS300291-01, 09/01/2009 to 08/31/2014 [NCE]). The GONASF program was a collaboration among Northwest Indian College, the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute at the University of Washington, and Washington State University to support pipeline efforts between…

The University of Washington, a Pacific Northwest Tribal Health Center and a Pacific Northwest Tribal College joined together to learn more about the health needs of Native American women who are or may become mothers. The Caring for Our Generations: Supporting Native Mothers and Their Families project is funded through a grant from the National…

The Center for Indigenous Health Research (CIHR) has several alcohol, drug and mental health (ADM) studies with Tribal College and Universities across the country.  The relationships we have with these partners are vital to the success of these studies and are extremely important to us as a team.  Four team members travelled to the Southwest…

The Native Careers Workshops (NCW) are a series of annual gatherings sponsored by the Center for Genomics and Healthcare Equality (CGHE) in collaboration with the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI) that explore how higher education and career pathways intersect with serving tribal and urban Indian communities.  Rose James (Lummi/Duwamish), Assistant Professor in the Department of…

Dr. Stephanie A. Fryberg (Tulalip Tribes) visited the University of Washington on November 13, 2013, to present “Culturally Grounded Interventions to Enhance Academic Performance,” research on the powerful impact of culturally grounded messages on Native American and first generation college students in academia. In the two studies she presented, Dr. Fryberg examined the mismatch between…

IWRI is honored and proud to sponsor a panel of three, highly respected Māori scholars from New Zealand to the UW.  Please join the university community and local community members in welcoming Dr. Paul Reynolds, Dr. Cherryl Waerea-i-te-rangi Smith, and Mr. Adrian Rurawhe, all from Te Atawhai o te Ao: Independent Mori Institute for Environment…

The 17 (out of 21 or so) surviving indigenous languages of Taiwan are the oldest and most diverse languages in the widespread, 1200-language Austronesian family of languages.  The linguistic importance of the Taiwanese languages lies in the fact that of the ten major branches of Austronesian (Blust, 1999), nine are exclusively Taiwanese.  (These branches are…

Kmbiyax Su Hug! “Are you strong?” is the traditional greeting in the Truku language of Taiwan. Before being colonized by foreign countries, the Truku people lived in the mountains. Only strong people can survive and live in the mountains, so Truku people say hello to tribal members by asking “Kmbiyax Su Hug?” My name is…

Taiwan is a small, densely-populated (second only to Bangladesh among nations) island in the Western Pacific off the southeast coast of China, that has a significant population of Austronesian indigenous peoples. The indigenous peoples of Taiwan consist of 14 different officially recognized tribes, as well as some unrecognized tribes, totaling nearly 500,000 people. This represents…