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Issamba Centre

Victoria,

Community Focus: African, Caribbean

A hub for African, Caribbean diaspora and African Descent communities on Vancouver Island. Centre Culturel et Social pour les Personnes d’Ascendance Africaine.

Ixtlixochitl White Hawk

Everett,

Community Focus: Indigenous American

Living in a traditional life, in a contemporary culture.

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe

Sequim,

Community Focus: Indigenous American
Jamestown S’Klallam / nuxsklai’yem

The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is one of 566 American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes in the United States of America. The Tribe shares a common history, territory and political rights with its sister Tribes the Lower Elwha Klallam and Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribes. The S’Klallam people have lived on the north shores of the Olympic Peninsula since time immemorial.

Japanese American Citizen League (JACL) Alaska

Seattle,

Community Focus: Americas, Eastern Asian, North American
Japanese, Japanese American

JACL Alaska is a chapter within the national Japanese American Citizens League, which is the oldest pan-Asian civil rights organization in America. JACL Alaska is a cultural, educational and non-partisan civil rights organization that supports local and JACL National initiatives.

Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Puyallup Valley Chapter

Kent,

Community Focus: Americas, Eastern Asian, North American
Japanese

The Japanese American Citizens League is a national organization whose mission is to secure and safeguard the civil and human rights of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans and all communities who are affected by injustice and bigotry.

Japanese American Museum of Oregon

Portland,

Community Focus: Americas, Eastern Asian, North American
Japanese

Sharing and preserving Japanese American history and culture in the Pacific Northwest.

Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington

Seattle,

Community Focus: Americas, Eastern Asian, North American
Japanese

The JCCCW vision is “A lively, intergenerational gathering place and destination in the Pacific Northwest, where people of all backgrounds learn Japanese language and traditional arts, celebrate Japanese and Japanese American history and culture, and build intercultural understanding.”

JayHawk Institute

Poulsbo,

Community Focus: Indigenous American

The JayHawk Institute was founded out of the desires of noted Pacific Northwest Native Style artist Duane Pasco and his wife Betty, a Suquamish tribal elder and weaver/artist/teacher to pass on their considerable knowledge of, and passion for, Pacific Northwest traditions and culture.

Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center (JKHC)

Klukwan,

Community Focus: Indigenous American
Alaska Native

In the 1970’s a movement toward the culture began to take place. In 1976 the Chilkat Indian Village Tribal Government passed an ordinance preventing the sale or removal of clan trust property without the knowledge and approval of the tribal government. The return to the culture was slow in progressing at first but really began to pick up some momentum after the Klukwan Healing Robe was started in the fall of 1992 and the Whale House Trial was held in 1993. A plan to build the Jilkaat Kwaan Cultural Heritage Center began to take shape when the village held a strategic planning session in January of 2002. The Heritage Center is helping to addresses the village/clan’s pressing issue of where to put the precious clan treasures that are no longer housed in clan houses and the community’s desire to rebuild and restore our cultural heritage.

Jim Pepper Native Arts Council

Portland,

Community Focus: Indigenous American

We are a Native American-led 501c3 charitable organization celebrating and exploring the legacy of the great Kaw/Creek musician Jim Pepper, raising awareness of and creating opportunities for Indigenous musicians, and improving access to culturally-relevant musical education for Native American students. We are developing culturally relevant curriculum for grades 9 through 12, which we have named Speak/Sing Native™.

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