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Polly Olsen (Yakama Nation) recently departed from the University of Washington after nearly 20 years of dedicated service. She is now Executive Director for the Association of American Indian Physicians in Oklahoma City. During her time at the UW, she served in leadership positions such as Director of the UW Native American Center of Excellence…

Te torino haere whakamua, whakamuri (At the same time the spiral is going forward, it is going back) Central to the Māori culture, the koru symbol is based on the unfurling fern frond of the silver fern native to Aotearoa (New Zealand). The circular shape of the koru represents growth and new life while the…

The third meeting of the Indigenous Research Collaborative to End Violence took place Sept. 14-15, 2015 at the Talaris Center near the Univ. of Washington campus in Seattle. Meeting attendees were primarily Indigenous women researchers. They were academics, professors, community leaders and experts with invaluable insights and expertise, and they hailed from all over: from…

  The guiding principle of NYEP’s summer program is to empower Native middle school students to focus in school by making STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) curriculum culturally relevant. Students will see first-hand the incredible impact one can have personally and in the community by meeting university students and Native role models who currently…

This article originally appeared in the June 2015 issue of Biskinik, the monthly newspaper of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and is reprinted here with permission. Yvppvlli: (YOH-pol-ee) To walk slowly and softly, not with a hard tread (Choctaw Language Dictionary, by Cyrus Byington) Each one of us will face a set of challenges as…

The Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center (Detroit URC, Director Barbara Israel, DrPH) is a collaborative partnership composed of representatives from eleven organizations.  Detroit URC has selected 12 community-academic teams from across the U.S. to participate in the Community-Based Participatory Research Partnership (CBPR) Academy, funded by the National Institutes of Health. This new, year-long program is…

In May 2015, Professor C. June Strickland recivied the Distinguished Diversity Advocate Award from theUW School of Nursing, and the “Rising Star” award, Women of Color Empowered lunchon, sponsored by the Northwest Asian Weekly. The following was excerpted in part from UW Nurses Recognition Banquet program, May 6, 2015; and Northwest Asian Weekly, May 23,…

There is something profoundly moving about the way that University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Professor Valli Kalei Kanuha commands a space. For days after having heard her speak on Wednesday, May 18, the memory of Dr. Kanuha’s powerful opening words continued to reverberate in my mind: “We walk as guests except in places where our…

As a Menominee doctoral student at the University of Washington School of Social Work, I was thrilled that one of my ultimate tribal heroines and social work mentors was invited to speak at several campus events in late March and early April this year. Ada Deer was invited as one of IWRI’s Elders in Residence….

After over a year of intensive preparations, the “Creating Campus Change” (CCC) project (Principal Investigator Bonnie Duran, PhD; Co-Investigators Mary Larimer, PhD; Dennis Donovan, PhD; Myra Parker, JD-PhD; and Maya Magarati, PhD) went into the field at 22 tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) throughout the U.S. and Canada during April and May 2015. The CCC…