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Indigenous Walking Tour

Seattle,

Community Focus: Indigenous American

The 40-page, full color booklet tells the story of Indigenous places through an Indigenous community member’s eyes across seven stops on campus. Stops include the Burke Museum, wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ [Intellectual House], Indigenous artworks, the Medicinal Herb Garden, the Ethnic Cultural Center, the Husky Union Building (HUB) and Union Bay Natural Area. The booklet, with physical copies available at University libraries and other campus buildings beginning Autumn 2021.

Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI)

Seattle,

Community Focus: Indigenous American
Alaska Native

IWRI is an transdisciplinary institute at the University of Washington and is housed at the School of Social Work. Our vision is to support the inherent rights of Indigenous peoples to achieve full and complete health and wellness.

Indigitization

Vancouver,

Community Focus: Indigenous American

Indigitization is a BC based collaborative initiative between Indigenous communities and organizations, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, the Museum of Anthropology, Northern BC Archives (UNBC), and X̱wi7x̱wa Library, and the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) to facilitate capacity building in Indigenous information management.

Indipino Community of Bainbridge Island

Bainbridge Island,

Community Focus: Asian American, Indigenous American, Southeastern Asia
Filipino, Filipino American

The genesis of the Indipino Community of Bainbridge Island began when thirty-six Indigenous women from nineteen different tribes in Canada, Washington State and Alaska migrated to Bainbridge Island, Washington to pick berries for Japanese American farmers in late 1930s and early 1940s. There they met and married young Filipino immigrant bachelors and settled on the Puget Sound Island located in the traditional territory of the Suquamish people.

Indo-American Friendship Forum Foundation (IAFFF)

Mill Creek,

Community Focus: Americas, North American, Southern Asian
Indian

Indo-American Friendship Forum Foundation was formed 20 years ago to encourage and promote assimilation of Indo-Americans in the political and socio-economic fabric of mainstream America, and to promote trade relations between the world’s two largest democracies, India and the United States.

Innovations HTC

Olympia,

Community Focus: Indigenous American, Survivor

Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative is an Indigenous survivor-led social justice non-profit based in Olympia WA. IHTC is action-focused and our mission is to engage first responders, tribes, and other stakeholders in eliminating human trafficking through solution-based knowledge and trauma-informed strategies, and to empower survivors to heal and build self-sufficient, affirming lives. Our goal is to ensure that the voices of those with lived experience are elevated and inclusive of all forms of exploitation.

Instituto de Cultura Oregoniana (ICO)

Portland,

Community Focus: Latina/e/o/x
Chicana/e/o/x, Hispanic

El ICO es una organización sin ánimo de lucro 501(c)(3). Promovemos la cultura hispanohablante de Oregón y el multilingüismo

Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice

Portland,

Community Focus: Immigrant/Refugee, Latina/e/o/x, Mexican
Hispanic, Interfaith

A Portland, OR interfaith coalition called by faith and conscience to respond to the suffering of our immigrant brothers and sisters living in the U.S.

International Capoeira Angola Foundation

Seattle,

Community Focus: African, South American
Brazilian

ICAF is a non-profit educational organization committed to the cultivation, preservation, and growth of the African Brazilian cultural art form Capoeira Angola.

Iñupiat Heritage Center

Utqiagvik,

Community Focus: Indigenous American
Alaska Native, Iñupiat

The Iñupiat Heritage Center (IHC) brings people together to promote and perpetuate Iñupiat history, language and culture. This dynamic interaction between the Iñupiat and their environment fosters the awareness, understanding and appreciation of the Iñupiat way of life from generation to generation. The Heritage Center promotes tourism and supports Iñupiat artists by providing a place in which to work on and showcase arts and crafts. It also serves to support the whaling traditions of the Iñupiat by making available the Traditional Room for construction or repair of traditional whaling boats and other subsistence tools. The Heritage Center provides a place for cultural revitalization efforts as well as serving the departments of the borough through its services and by providing meeting space for public events. Our multi-purpose room and classroom are available to rent for hosting events from outreach classes to department meetings.

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