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SING THE OLD SONGS: part two

Picture what it would look like for Seattle's housing and hospital infrastructure to reflect Coast Salish culture. Consider the role that forced sterilization of Native women has played in creating today’s high rates of Native infant mortality. Travel to the heart of SODO, where the Chief Seattle Club is turning concrete into a Medicine Garden. This is Growing Old.

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Listen to the new single from Lacey Warrior, featured in part one of Sing the Old Songs. This traditional Ojibwa song was written by Anishinabe Kwewag to be shared among women.

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"We're in a time where this conversation wouldn't have happened a decade ago, probably wouldn't have happened a couple years ago. 100 years ago I probably would have been put in jail for talking like this.

So we really are in an era of opportunity where people are honestly attempting and trying to be more inclusive and mindful of the lands that they are living on. Not just romanticizing Chief Seattle, but making sure to infuse that beautiful culture into everyday life all around it."

- Valerie Segrest
Muckleshoot
Food Sovereignty Strategist

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"We don't have a lot of folks who are really willing to step back and allow people of color to lead. We have a lot of talk about, 'oh, let's bring everyone to the table.' But we have to remember that that table was made by white folks to succeed. And so we have to dismantle those tables.

This is not my idea, but we have to dismantle those tables and build sweat lodges, and bring people into those spaces, right? Because every time I go to a policy-making table, I have to remember that this was not set up for me to succeed."

- Colleen Echohawk
Pawnee / Athabascan
Chief Seattle Club Executive Director

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"We as a community always supported each other and always made sure that everybody had food, everybody had clothing, everybody had housing. And so I think that's really where Eagle Village came from, was just out of necessity.

It’s a super exciting project. It's a very comforting place for people to stabilize themselves."

- Lacey Warrior
Dena'ina / Gros Ventre / Alutiiq
Native Works Manager

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STRONG WOMAN SONG

Download the single from Lacey Warrior, featured in part one of Sing the Old Songs. This traditional Ojibwa song was written by Anishinabe Kwewag to be shared among women.