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Using Her Bassoon To Elevate Indigenous Voices – With Composer Dr. Jacqueline Wilson (Yakama)

By Ashley Beard December 20, 2022

Bassoonist Dr. Jacqueline Wilson smiling with her instrument. Click here to hear the full story.

Can an instrument suit your personality? Dr. Jacqueline Wilson of Yakama would say so. She believes her personality fits best with a large, low sounding, double reed woodwind instrument: the […]Read More

WSP Launches Missing Indigenous Person Alert System

By Johanna Bejarano July 5, 2022

Posters with images of missing or murdered indigenous people were displayed at the MMIW/P Healing Gathering in Seattle in May. Credit: Johanna Bejarano. Read The Washington State Patrol (WSP) officially […]Read More

Yakima High School Student Wins Congressional Art Competition

By Dori Luzzo Gilmour May 20, 2022

Silenced by Morgan Greene Listen (Runtime :46) Read A Yakima A.C. Davis High School senior has won a Congressional Art Competition with her depiction of a woman and the symbol […]Read More

Nationwide Alert System Created for Missing Indigenous Persons

By Johanna Bejarano April 5, 2022

Protestors with arms raised bringing attention to plight of missing indigenous women.

Governor Inslee signed Bill 1725 which creates an endangered missing person advisory.Read More

WA State Will Soon Have An Alert System For Murdered And Missing Indigenous People

By Natalie Newcomb March 31, 2022

Women attend the closing ceremony of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls on Monday in Gatineau, Quebec. Chris Wattie/Reuters

Women attend the closing ceremony of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls CREDIT: Chris Wattie/Reuters Read For the first time, Washington State will have an […]Read More