United Indians of All Tribes: Daybreak Star Cultural Center

https://unitedindians.org/daybreak-star-center/

Daybreak Star Cultural Center owes its existence to Native American activists, including United Indians’ founder, Bernie Whitebear. Together with the Indian community, they staged a non-violent takeover and occupation of the land in 1970 after most of the Fort Lawton military base was declared surplus by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Our History

Founded in 1970, United Indians of All Tribes Foundation provides an extensive array of culturally responsive services and programming to Seattle and King County's urban Native community.

Our headquarters, the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, was completed in 1977, and has become a hub of activity for Native peoples and their supporters locally, nationally, and internationally.  Daybreak Star is also  home to a permanent collection of Native art, as well as the Sacred Circle Gallery featuring rotating exhibits of work by contemporary Native artists. Sacred Circle Gift Shop is located at Daybreak Star, as well as Fremont, and the annual Seafair Indian Days Powwow and Indigenous People’s day celebrations are held here.

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Storme Webber

Storme Webber
Storme Webber
Storme Webber Blues Divine
Storme Webber, Jack Straw
Storme Webber
Storme Webber is a Two-Spirit Sugpiaq/Alutiiq, Black, and Choctaw poet, interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, and performer based in Seattle, Washington. Her cross-disciplinary practice brings together poetry, performance, archival photographs, audio, altar installation, text-based work, and collaboration to explore lineage, gender, race, sexuality, memory, spirit, survivance, and decolonization. Her work is often rooted in blues and jazz traditions, including experimental vocal performance and a cappella singing.

Asia Tail

Asia Tail
Asia Tail
Asia Tail
Asia Tail
Asia Tail is a Cherokee artist, curator, and community organizer based in Seattle, Washington. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Tail was born and raised on Coast Salish territories and is an active member of the Pacific Northwest’s Urban Native community.