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JANUARY 11, 2023
Reconnecting to Native heritage
VOL. 104, NO. 2
FEATURED STORIES
UIATF hosts blessing ceremony for new canoe-carving center
By Jessica Keller QA & Mag News editor
City and county government leaders, as well as leaders and representatives of the coastal Native American tribes, celebrated a new project to honor and recognize the Native culture and history in the city with a blessing ceremony of the future Northwest Native Canoe Center on the west side of South Lake Union. The United Indians of all Tribes Foundation, whose home is at Daybreak Star in Magnolia’s Discover Park, has pursued the project to honor and reconnect coastal Native American tribes’ heritage, history and culture of canoe carving in the region and share that history and their stories with the public once complete. Friday’s ceremony included Native drumming by Willard Bill Jr. of the Muckleshoot tribe, Comments by Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, King County Executive Dow Constantine and District 4 County Councilmember Jeanne Kohl-Welles, whose district includes Queen Anne, Magnolia and South Lake Union. U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who had to be in Washington D.C., sent a video expressing her enthusiasm for the canoe carving house. At the blessing ceremony Friday, United Indians of all Tribes Foundation Executive Director Mike Tulee, and member of the Yakama Nation, said UIATF members have
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Photo by Jessica Keller Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, from left, District 4 County Councilmember Jeanne Kohl-Welles and King County Executive Dow Constantine wear the ceremonial blankets presented to them at the blessing for the future United Indians of all Tribe Foundation’s Native Northwest Canoe Carving House Friday at the Center for Wooden Boats next to South Lake Union. carving for some time but only recently did
lion from King County that pushed the project over the finish line. “This project is long past due,” Tulee said.
$700,000 in federal funding and $1.1 mil-
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wanted to celebrate the tribe’s ties to canoe
all the funding come together. That includes
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Taking over the reins: New exec director has big shoes to fill
QA & Mag News staff
Gabriel-Bello Lawrence-Diaz is the new executive director of Coyote Central, a non-profit art program for youth in Seattle. He was hired this summer after co-founder and former program director Marybeth Satterlee and executive director Claudia Stelle retired. Coyote Central has two locations, at 2300 E. Cherry St. and 12325 Lake City Way N.E. Answers have been edited for grammar and clarity. Q: Who is Gabriel-Bello Lawrence-Diaz? A: I am a Puerto Rican (Boriken) education activist, community organizer and artist. Q: Where did you grow up and go to school? And what brought you to Seattle? A: Born in Hendon, London, England, moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, then to Camden, New Jersey, and finally to Pennsauken New Jersey, where I graduated high school. Completed my undergraduate degree in Boston, Massachusetts, at Wentworth Institute of Technology for a Bachelor of Science with a minor in Art and Architecture and History. After moving to Europe, I went to the University of East London for a Masters in Architecture and Urbanism. Then (I) moved to
Photo by Laura Marie Rivera Gabriel-Bello Lawrence-Diaz, new executive director of Coyote Central, laughs with former program director and co-founder Marybeth Satterlee outside Coyote Central, at 2300 E. Cherry St., Seattle.
Barcelona, Spain to go to the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) for a second Masters in Advanced Architecture focused on robotic engineering. What brought me to Seattle was to move back to America and be closer to my father who has lived in Washington since ’92. He sold me on the narrative of Seattle being a place I could flourish as an artist and entrepreneur within the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) world I was working in. Q: Tell us about your favorite experience as an artist? A: My current work in augmented reality is my favorite. Recently, I created a mural in South Lake Union in collaboration with Future Arts. More info on this project here: smashthebox.org/news/
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