Supporting Healing, Wholeness,
and Culturally Attuned Care
on Vashon Island
photograph © Ray Pfortner
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Thunderbird Treatment Center Job Fair
Wednesday April 15 & Saturday April 18, 2026
at Vashon Center for the Arts
Click here for details!
Join us for a winter solstice celebration
Vashon Center for the Arts
6 - 9 p.m. • Saturday, Nov. 2
Tickets $20 at the door
Please join us for a silent auction and fundraiser
in support of Thunderbird Treatment Center
With featured artists Jack George • Steph Littlebird • Kitana Connelly
The Vashon-Maury Community Council
is currently holding a partial revote on the zoning motion.
Please vote ‘no’ on the ballot from ElectionBuddy
by 10 am, Sunday, Sept. 1
Some of the Zoom attendees at the Aug. 15 Vashon-Maury Community Council meeting were unable to vote on a key motion. As a result, the Community Council has decided to redo the vote for those who attended the meeting via Zoom.
If you’re a voting member who attended via Zoom, you should have received an email this week with a link to a ballot from an electronic voting platform called ElectionBuddy.
Read our Friends of Thunderbird newsletter to learn more about this motion
and why we think TTC friends should oppose it.
An Afternoon with
Ramona Bennett Bill
author of Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe
Free Admission
1:30 - 3:30 pm • Saturday May 9
Lewis Hall • 23905 Vashon Hwy SW
(behind Burton Church)
Ramona Bennett Bill (Puyallup) is a longtime tribal leader, activist, and author of Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe. Bennett Bill has spent decades advocating for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, and Indigenous self-determination. A central figure in the Fishing Rights movement of the 1960s and 70s, her leadership and advocacy helped shape a critical era in the fight for tribal rights in the Pacific Northwest.
Ramona will share stories from her life, discuss the history behind the fight for tribal rights, and read from her book. She will be available to sign copies, which will be available for purchase at the event.
Hosted by Vashon Island Unitarian Universalists together with the Friends of Thunderbird, the Vashon Maury Island Land Trust, Vashon-Maury SURJ, and the Vashon Heritage Museum.
This documentary chronicles the inspiring, decades-long effort to
reintroduce buffalo to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
Narrated by Nez Perce actor Lily Gladstone, Bring Them Home won the
Big Sky Award at the 2024 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, given to films
that honor the American West's history, tradition, and imagination.
All are welcome to this lovely evening of Indigenous art and culture!
The Seattle Indian Health Board's annual
Adeline Garcia Community Service Awards Dinner
an opportunity to celebrate Native culture and recognize community leaders
6 pm • Friday, April 25
Seattle Design Center
5701 6th Ave. S, Seattle
The event will honor three leaders in our community:
-
Nichole Maher, inaugural president and CEO of the Inatai Foundation, which has committed $200 million in grants, most going to people-of-color-led organizations.
-
Girmay Zahilay, chair of the King County Council, a member of the Sound Transit board, and an attorney who founded Rising Leaders, a nonprofit mentoring underserved youth.
-
Dr. Ben Danielson, a pediatrician and clinical professor at the University of Washington who led the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic for 20 years and is a prominent advocate for health equity.
The keynote speaker will be Valerie Segrest, an enrolled member of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe and cofounder of Tahoma Peak Solutions, a Native woman-owned firm that provides food-planning and strategic communications to Indigenous communities.
Tickets are $125.
If you’d like to be at one of our tables, message Friends of Thunderbird at
FriendsOfThunderbirdVashon@gmail.com
If you can’t attend but wish to make a donation to SIHB, please click here.
To learn more about the gala, click here.
Site colors:
blue: 3B4876
gray: DBDBDB
Fonts:
Titles: Montserrat
Body: Avenir
Special/Fancy: Marcellus
Mailchimp: http://eepurl.com/iSILAM
Thunderbird Treatment Center Job Fair
Wednesday April 15 & Saturday April 18, 2026
at Vashon Center for the Arts
Click here for details!
Join us for a winter solstice celebration
Vashon Center for the Arts
6 - 9 p.m. • Saturday, Nov. 2
Tickets $20 at the door
Please join us for a silent auction and fundraiser
in support of Thunderbird Treatment Center
With featured artists Jack George • Steph Littlebird • Kitana Connelly
The Vashon-Maury Community Council
is currently holding a partial revote on the zoning motion.
Please vote ‘no’ on the ballot from ElectionBuddy
by 10 am, Sunday, Sept. 1
Some of the Zoom attendees at the Aug. 15 Vashon-Maury Community Council meeting were unable to vote on a key motion. As a result, the Community Council has decided to redo the vote for those who attended the meeting via Zoom.
If you’re a voting member who attended via Zoom, you should have received an email this week with a link to a ballot from an electronic voting platform called ElectionBuddy.
Read our Friends of Thunderbird newsletter to learn more about this motion
and why we think TTC friends should oppose it.
An Afternoon with Ramona Bennett Bill
an opportunity to celebrate Native culture and recognize community leaders
1:30 - 3:30 pm • Saturday May 9 • Free
Lewis Hall
23905 Vashon Hwy SW (behind Burton Church)
The Vashon Island Unitarian Universalists together with the Friends of Thunderbird, the Vashon Maury Island Land Trust, Vashon-Maury SURJ, and the Vashon Heritage Museum invite you to a special afternoon with Ramona Bennett Bill (Puyallup), longtime tribal leader, activist, and author of Fighting for the Puyallup. Bennett Bill has spent decades advocating for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, and Indigenous self-determination. A central figure in the Fishing Rights movement of the 1960s and 70s, her leadership and advocacy helped shape a critical era in the fight for tribal rights in the Pacific Northwest.
Ramona will share stories from her life, discuss the history behind the fight for tribal rights, and read from her book. She will be available to sign copies, which will be available for purchase at the event.
If you can’t attend but wish to make a donation to SIHB, please click here.
To learn more about the gala, click here.
This documentary chronicles the inspiring, decades-long effort to
reintroduce buffalo to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
Narrated by Nez Perce actor Lily Gladstone, Bring Them Home won the
Big Sky Award at the 2024 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, given to films
that honor the American West's history, tradition, and imagination.
All are welcome to this lovely evening of Indigenous art and culture!
The Seattle Indian Health Board's annual
Adeline Garcia Community Service Awards Dinner
an opportunity to celebrate Native culture and recognize community leaders
6 pm • Friday, April 25
Seattle Design Center
5701 6th Ave. S, Seattle
The event will honor three leaders in our community:
-
Nichole Maher, inaugural president and CEO of the Inatai Foundation, which has committed $200 million in grants, most going to people-of-color-led organizations.
-
Girmay Zahilay, chair of the King County Council, a member of the Sound Transit board, and an attorney who founded Rising Leaders, a nonprofit mentoring underserved youth.
-
Dr. Ben Danielson, a pediatrician and clinical professor at the University of Washington who led the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic for 20 years and is a prominent advocate for health equity.
The keynote speaker will be Valerie Segrest, an enrolled member of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe and cofounder of Tahoma Peak Solutions, a Native woman-owned firm that provides food-planning and strategic communications to Indigenous communities.
Tickets are $125.
If you’d like to be at one of our tables, message Friends of Thunderbird at
FriendsOfThunderbirdVashon@gmail.com
If you can’t attend but wish to make a donation to SIHB, please click here.
To learn more about the gala, click here.