From The Road: 562 Blog
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A Project 562 Catch Up
Hello relatives
It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these updates. A lot has changed but the work remains the same.
I’m a mother now, my baby Alma Bee is almost three and reminds me every single day why I do the work that I do. I got…
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Every Person Living In The Northwest Should Know This History
In August, fifteen thousand people welcomed more than one hundred canoes to Puyallup. It was glorious. I felt proud to be a Coast Salish woman. I felt proud to be born from these people
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The Coast Salish Sea has always been known as the life blood of our people— Mish’s…
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Hiking the Nüümü Poyo: An Act of Love by Indigenous Women
Written By Tazbah Chavez
They say when you’re lost you should come home
Come home to your mother’s heartbeat
Come home to your father’s days
Come home from the moon to remember how you’re made
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Autumn Harry along the Nüümü Poyo
This is what Indigenous Women Hike founder, Jolie Varela,…
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The Seeds of Revival: Electa Redcorn
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Electa Hare Redcorn, Pawnee and Yankton Sioux
From the power and beauty of the corn to a lifestyle and source of prayer, Electa shows us that colonization cannot define or limit what we are capable of—in 1998, there were just about 75 indigenous seeds left in Pawnee Nation, but through…
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Indigenous Shine: How One Young Man is Changing Native Representation
They say a star is born. In Pawnee, stars are guiding Grandfathers. When the Big Dipper’s tail star landed in Hunkpapa, human beings emerged. The North star guided the enslaved toward liberation. And shining brightly to the west is one of our favorite rising stars- Joey Montoya. A San Franciscan…
