Support Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center and Programs #Seattle

the HEART of the Puget Sound's Urban Native American Community

United Indians of All Tribes Humbly Asks for Your Help!

We are struggling at Daybreak Star Cultural Center.  Help us raise $125,000 to keep the doors open and programs operating until we can implement our new strategic plan.

We lost our Head Start funding, and the rental income which paid for building operating costs, due to Federal program cuts. Despite deep cutbacks and restructuring, we are temporarily coming up short. We have the plans to get back on our feet and become self-sustaining again.  With your help we are doing it.

Our goal is 60 days to raise the necessary funds. Follow this link to see the wonderful video about the important role Daybreak Star plays for Urban Indians, and our powerful history.

See our Story at the Seattle Times and King5 News

See our REWARDS GALLERY:  http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/support-daybreak-star-native-american-cultural-center-seattle/x/460733?c=gallery

We need your help to keep providing services for Native Americans in the Puget Sound Area.

·  We must continue to support Seattle’s Native American Elders with gathering space, Lunch nutrition programs and opportunities to pass their heritage on to the next generation. 

·  We must keep up our support of Foster Care programs and Ina Maka home visiting for urban Indian Children, and provide outreach to keep them connected to their community and roots.

·  We must continue to provide cultural, religious and outplacement services for urban Indian inmates to help them regain their focus, and get back on their feet.

·  We must maintain our Labateyah Youth Home in Seattle for homeless adolescents to a have a safe place to stay and have shelter.

·  We must keep providing support for employment and educational opportunities through our Native Workforce Service Program.

·  We must maintain the historically important, central heart of the Pacific Northwest urban Indian community, The Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center in Discovery Park. We need it for community and cultural programs, and importantly, our Annual Seafair Pow Wow, where thousands of people from all of over the United States and Canada come to celebrate our Native cultural in unity.

Your financial support is critical during this time of transition, but we also need your moral and social support. After you have made your pledge,

Join us on Facebook and share and like our posts,

Follow us on Twitter, and spread the word to your followers.

Email this link to a friend, colleague or family member.

We’re the HEART of the Seattle Native American Community, bringing Urban Indians together to preserve their culture, heritage and identity.

From our leadership:

  "We envision this campaign as Phase I of three phases needed to launch Daybreak Star and UIATF to full self-sustainability. After this campaign we will enter Phase II,  strategically working with partners and grant makers to hire new leadership for the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation.  Phase III will follow, realizing the foundations vision to become self-sustaining by investing in our amazing building and land.  We will be sharing more about these next steps to all our supporters as we put plans to the vision." 

About United Indians and Daybreak Star: 

Daybreak Star was born 43 years ago out of the Native Civil Rights movement of the late 1960s. Our mission is to provide educational, cultural, and social services to reconnect indigenous people in the Puget Sound region to their heritage by strengthening their sense of belonging and significance as native people. Rooted within the urban American Indian and Alaskan Native community, United Indians serves approximately 1,000 clients annually and acts as a cultural home for over 10,000 urban Indians. 

How the Daybreak Star came to be: 

To claim the Discovery Park bluff that serves as a spiritual and cultural respite in Seattle, local Native Americans in 1970 surrounded a military fort and scaled the fences.

The invasion of Fort Lawton, when more than 100 people covered razor wire with blankets to ensure Indians got a piece of Fort Lawton when it was decommissioned, is a proud moment for Seattle’s urban Indians.

It led to the construction of the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center and a vision for a 96,000-square-foot complex to commemorate and celebrate indigenous culture.

If you can't contribute to the cause monetarily, that doesn't mean you can't help! Share this campaign and video on your social media sites! Every tweet, tumblr post, and Facebook share makes a difference.

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And here are some of the rewards for your generosity:

"We envision this campaign as Phase I of three phases needed to launch Daybreak Star and UIATF to full self-sustainability. After this campaign we will enter Phase II,  strategically working with partners and grant makers to hire new leadership for the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation.  Phase III will follow, realizing the foundations vision to become self-sustaining by investing in our amazing building and land.  We will be sharing more about these next steps to all our supporters as we put plans to the vision."  

Respectfully,

Board, Staff and Friends, united!

United Indians of All Tribes Foundation