Headwater People Consulting

10/30/2025

Join our friends at in celebrating Día de los Mu***os — a time to honor ancestors, community, and culture. 🌼✨

📍SeaTac Community Center
🗓️ Nov 1 | 12–6PM
🎶 Music | Performances | Food | Culture

Head to ’s page for full event details and to see how this beautiful celebration is being brought to life! 💛

10/16/2025

📣 We’re here at Deep Dive Day with the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium!

While Cyndy holds it down at the Headwater People Consulting table, Matt Echohawk-Hayashi will be leading our session this afternoon:

✨ “Reimagining a Relational Future: There Is No Me Without We”
A conversation rooted in Indigenous worldviews, where we’ll explore how to move beyond systems of separation toward ones that honor community wholeness and interconnection.

📍Town Hall Seattle
🗓️ Deep Dive Day | October 16

Come say hi, grab a brochure, and learn more about our work building relational, inclusive futures in arts and culture spaces.

10/15/2025

How do we make inclusion the status quo?
By moving beyond designing for separation and centering community in everything we do.

Join Matthew Echohawk-Hayashi tomorrow at Deep Dive Day, where he’ll lead “Reimagining a Relational Future: There Is No Me Without We,” a session inspired by Indigenous worldviews that honor the wholeness of community.

This annual event—hosted by the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium (SCAC)—is a catalyst for advancing accessibility and inclusion in arts and culture spaces.

📍Town Hall Seattle
🗓️ Deep Dive Day | October 16

Stop by our Headwater People Consulting table to say hello and learn more about how we’re helping organizations build relational, inclusive futures.

09/19/2025

Welcome to Headwater People!
We are a Native- and woman-owned consulting firm rooted in Indigenous values, serving communities with care, clarity, and strategy.
We offer:
✔️ Strategic planning
✔️ Facilitation
✔️ Visual storytelling
✔️ Organizational design

Explore our work: headwaterpeople.com

09/18/2025

We’re honored to share that our President, Colleen Echohawk (Kithehaki Band of the Pawnee Nation; Upper Athabascan of Mentasta Lake), will be delivering The Heart Speaks keynote at , hosted by the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA).

Colleen’s leadership is rooted in Indigenous values, deep relationality, and bold vision — we can’t wait to see her uplift stories of Native brilliance, tourism, and community healing on this national stage.

Thank you AIANTA for this opportunity. We hope to see you there!
🌐 https://www.aianta.org/aitc

📣🌟 We are thrilled to announce that Colleen Echohawk (Kithehaki Band of the Pawnee Nation; Upper Athabascan people of Mentasta Lake), President, Headwater People Consulting will be our featured speaker for The Heart Speaks keynote at AITC!

🔗 Have you registered for AITC? https://www.aianta.org/aitc/

10/06/2024

Reposted from :
“The Overlook Walk is now open! 🌉

The rooftop of the Ocean Pavilion connects to the new Overlook Walk. Together, they form an elevated public park connecting to the waterfront for the very first time! 👯‍♀️

On the Ocean Pavilion's rooftop, you’ll discover native plantings designed with guidance from traditional ecological knowledge-keeper Valerie Segrest ()(Muckleshoot), co-founder and principal at Tahoma Peak Solutions—as well as sandblasted images led by Owen Oliver () (Quinault/Isleta Pueblo) of . Come on down (or head on up) to check it out! 🐚”

10/06/2024

We are Headwater People Consulting, and we’re deeply grateful for the privilege of serving incredible communities and organizations. Together, we build a future rooted in respect, connection, and shared growth. 🌱

01/28/2023

“I’m many things
a Daughter
Granddaughter
Niece
a Cousin
Friend
an Auntie
Future grandmother

Last weekend I saw what it is to be in Community
Through prayerful
Ceremony
Teachings carried and passed down
Generations to generations
Nothing withheld
I can be many things
When held in community

We have been honored to be a part of walking with traditional medicine programs and their medicine and cultural knowledge teachers run in the Pacific Northwest like Nakani Native Program.

These offerings are given freely in song, in the sound of the drum, the laughter of our people, in the smell of sweet grass and sage, in the tears, and in huckleberry jam. 

These gifts
This healing work
A salve to our communities

We can now drum and sing alongside them and we’re grateful.”

– Lis Echohawk Kawe ()

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07/09/2022

Let me honor you
It won’t be quick
Three days
Wrap you in blankets
Put moccasins on your feet
Gift others
Share food
Dance with you
Sing happy songs with you
Invite all the clans
Let me grieve with you
It won’t be quick
Three days
Wrap you in blankets
Put moccasins on your feet
Gift others
Share food
Dance with you
Sing sad songs with you
Clans know to come
Let me honor you
Gifting
Receiving
Reciprocity
Honors and heals
Us All
Let me honor you”

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05/08/2018

"That value of welcoming is not just compassionate talk. There is proof that sanctuary policies are working, keeping residents safer than in places that collaborate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics."

Where local governments collaborate with ICE, deportations have increased more than 75 percent. New Mexico shows a different way.