Unkitawa

Unkitawa’s project strived to provide education and services to the Urban Native American community within the greater King County area through increased access to cultural teachings, ceremonies, first foods, and traditional medicines.

The program was built to bridge the gap/barriers between urban families to access traditional and cultural teachings, providing the community with ways to prevent and lessen the symptoms caused by health disparities. They worked with fifteen families and 150 community members experiencing health disparities that have developed due to the changes within generational practices.

Unkitawa hosted classes with traditional chefs who have generational knowledge of first foods, building menus to teach the benefits of changing diets towards historical foods. The project also included recourses to wisdom keepers, hunters, fishers, farmers markets, first foods, and ceremonial teachings and practices built around the concept of healing the mind, body, and spirit.