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2 WA artists plead guilty to faking Native American heritage In two separate cases, artists from Maple Falls and Seattle pleaded guilty to violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act. They are to be sentenced in May.

Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust is a powerful documentary film on the linked histories of Indigenous dispossession, Japanese American incarceration, and struggles over water in the desertified Owens Valley of California, lands once known as Payahüünadü—the place where the water always flows.

Join us at UW’s Henry Art Gallery Auditorium on January 27 at 4:00pm for an in-person screening of the film and discussion with director Ann Kaneko. Ann will be in conversation with Dana Arviso, Sage Romero, and Alex Miranda. Dana is director of Unite:ED in the UW College of Education, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and grew up on the Bishop Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation in California. Sage was one of the film's sound artists and a member of the Tovowahamatu Numu (Big Pine Paiute) and Tuah-Tahi (Taos Pueblo) Tribes. Alex Miranda, also a sound artist on the film, is a contemporary Payómkawichum (Luiseno) artist from Southern California.

This event is sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at UW, and co-sponsored by Densho and UW American Ethnic and American Indian Studies, Comparative History Of Ideas, UW Japan Studies Program, Jackson School of International Studies at University of Washington, UW Program on the Environment, UW English Department, and the Banks Center for Educational Justice at UW College of Education.

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How Indigenous and Asian workers established Seattle as an early hub of labor migration Chinese and Indigenous migrants had a presence in urban coastal areas across the Pacific Northwest, but only in Seattle were they pushed so closely together.

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Online book authored by UW students for Art History 400.

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1st Native American US treasurer to be appointed, head Mint A Native American is being appointed U.S. treasurer, a historic first.

A chance encounter helps return sacred artifacts to an Indigenous group The return of the Masso Kova is the first successful repatriation of a cultural artifacts to an Indigenous group overseen by the United Nations.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/real-duwamish-seattles-first-people-and-the-bitter-fight-over-federal-recognition/

‘Real’ Duwamish: Seattle’s first people and the bitter fight over federal recognition In the 1850s, non-Natives arrived in the Puget Sound region not to trade, but this time to stay. The resulting diaspora of Native peoples reverberates today as the Duwamish Tribe continues a fight for federal recognition.

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How Black Lives Matter protests sparked interest, can lead to change A new study by the University of Washington and Indiana University finds that the growing use of anti-racist terms shows how Black Lives Matter has shifted the conversation around racism, raising...

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Minidoka in my bones: The generational trauma of Japanese American incarceration We must continue to protect Minidoka and the stories of the survivors and descendants. It reminds us how fragile freedom is, even in the land of the free.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/timber-company-returns-2-miles-of-waterfront-property-to-squaxin-island-tribe/

Timber company returns 2 miles of waterfront property to Squaxin Island Tribe As part of the growing "Land Back" movement, Port Blakely Companies returned 2 miles of waterfront acreage and tidelands to the Squaxin Island Tribe. The land had been acquired by the company following the signing of the 1854 Medicine Creek...

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https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/water-rights-fight-yakama-nation-wins-appeal-in-42-year-case-known-as-acquavella/

Water rights fight: Yakama Nation wins appeal in 42-year case known as Acquavella State authorities cannot regulate the number of acres the Yakama Nation irrigates on its reservation, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The ruling was in response to three appeals in the massive 42-year case known as Acquavella.

Two Seattle screenings on tap. The first one is on September 18th at 4pm, the Local Sightings Film Festival at the Northwest Film Forum and the second one is on October 16th at 4pm, at the Social Justice Film Festival at University Heights.

News | Stourwater Pictures The latest news for Stourwater Pictures, an award-winning documentary production company that specializes in meticulously crafted historical films. Known for finding the essential narratives buried in the subject matter – and developing absorbing and entertaining presentations that best honor and ...