The new year looks promising for Seattle's Native people
According to the 2017 Count Us In survey, Native Americans in Seattle/King County are seven times more likely to be homeless than any other population.
Colleen Echohawk, the executive director of the Chief Seattle Club, a nonprofit that serves Native people in Seattle, spoke with KUOW about the problem this last summer.
For a year-end series from our Race and Equity Team, reporter Katherine Banwell caught up with Echohawk again to ask what is pushing so many Native Americans into homelessness.
Note: Echohawk is a member of KUOW's board of directors.
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Katherine Banwell
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Katherine is the local host on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Prior to coming to KUOW, she worked at KPLU (now KNKX) as a fill-in host on All Things Considered and host of Weekend Morning Edition. She's also the voice of many telephone on-hold messages for businesses across the country and loves to act in her spare time.
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