Native Communities & Tribes

 

Kathleen Russell has worked for over seven years with various Native Communities and Tribes to help secure justice for Native peoples facing impossible odds. She has collaborated with Native organizations to strategically get their message to the public, their members and elected officials who have the power and resources to bring about positive change. Through her competency, contacts and collaborative work with clients, she has helped preserve subsistence-fishing rights in Alaska, educate Tribal leaders about the scourge of AIDS in Native communities, and educate Congress about the need for federal recognition for Native Hawaiians. The following is a partial list of past and current clients:

  • Navajo Nation Division of Health
  • National Tribal Environmental Council
  • Alaska Federation of Natives
  • Alaska Native Arts Foundation
  • Winnemem Wintu Tribe
  • Sacred Land Film Project
  • Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement
  • Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
  • First Alaskans Institute
  • Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
  • Red Feather Development Group
  • Honor the Earth Foundation
  • InterTribal Bison Cooperative
  • National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (NNAAPC)
KRC co-produced a two-day National Forum, ‘Strengthening U.S. Democracy: the Future of Self-Determination’ at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. in May 2003. The event brought together over 300 Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and American Indian leaders to discuss the collective future of Indigenous Peoples of the U.S. and its territories with members of Congress and the White House. Pictured are the multi-generational King Island Dancers who traveled to Washington, D.C. from Nome, Alaska.

Photo Credit: Jade Danner

   

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