Native Healing Through Homelessness with Nawiishtunmi Nightgun, Chief Traditional Officer at Chief Seattle Club

Nawiishtunmi Nightgun is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. She is a descendant of the Blackfeet Nation. Nawiishtunmi currently runs the traditional wellness department as the Chief Traditional Officer. Her role leads a team of traditional mental wellness staff, staff wellness, and gender-based violence team that will work individually and in group settings utilizing trauma informed mental health, cultural tools and practices to support the healing and wellness modalities that are centered in ancestral knowledge. Nawiishtunmi is a mother of three who gathers and harvests traditional foods/medicines with her family and participates in ceremony. Nawiishtunmi previously has served as Co-Chair of the CEA Public Policy Committee, and as an Indian Policy Advisory Committee Delegate for Washington State as a tribal leader. A vocal advocate for ending homelessness and racial equity, she has presented on decolonizing colonialism, decolonizing data, and addressing the needs of our community during the pandemic in collaboration with the regional public health agency.Your next steps: Learn more about how Chief Seattle Club works at the intersection of Native Justice and homelessness - https://www.chiefseattleclub.org/ Learn more about Washington’s Native history and people - https://www.washingtontribes.org/the-tribes-of-washington/ A machine-readable transcript of the episode is available here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/16cFmADayGVfmMvf4seIsDAOljW2ZL-OjdDBpw7180Gk/edit?usp=sharing If you enjoyed the podcast, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to Mirror Stage via our website at mirrorstage.org/donate and follow us on social media. Learn more about us on socials: Facebook: http://facebook.com/mirrorstage Instagram: http://instagram.com/mirrorstagewa Episodes release on the fourth Wednesday of the month. See you in July! About the Music: All music by Benjamin Marx - https://www.bnmrx.com/