United Indians of All Tribes Foundation - Daybreak Star

Winter Film Showcase - Short Film Blocks
2025-02-16 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, 5011 Bernie Whitebear Way, Seattle, WA, 98199, United States
2:00 PM – Short Film Blocks

A collection of diverse short films by Indigenous filmmakers, showcasing powerful stories and creative artistry. FREE!!!

Short Films include:
I Was Never The Siren – House of Kilig’s inaugural film

The Queen’s Flowers – an animated short adventure for kids that follows Emma, a native Hawaiian girl in 1915 Honolulu, as she makes a special gift for the last monarch of Hawai`i, Queen Lili`uokalani.
Cleanings A Cakewalk – (Navajo Language Short) An imaginative and independent young boy, Albert, learns the value of hard work and finds his place in his community after having to clean the Chapter House which he finds out is no cake-walk in the park.

HAAGUA – a new short film featuring a cast of surfers representing 13 tribal nations, traces the roots of a new generation that includes Andy Nieblas (Acjachemen), David Flores Ramos (Nahua), and Kaliko Kahoonei (Hawaiian).
Tribal Food Sovereignty – explore food in the Nations

Winter Film Showcase - Standing Above the Clouds
2025-02-16 16:00 - 17:30
Standing Above the Clouds Film
WHEN A MASSIVE THIRTY METER TELESCOPE IS PROPOSED TO BE BUILT ON MAUNA KEA, AN UPRISING OF KIAʻI (PROTECTORS) IN HAWAIʻI AND AROUND THE WORLD DEDICATE THEIR LIVES TO PROTECTING THE SACRED MOUNTAIN FROM FURTHER DESTRUCTION.
THROUGH THE LENS OF MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS IN THREE NATIVE HAWAIIAN FAMILIES, STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS EXPLORES INTERGENERATIONAL HEALING AND THE IMPACTS OF SAFEGUARDING CULTURAL TRADITIONS.

Cost: FREE!!!
When: 2/16/25
Time: 4 pm to 5:30pm
Where: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
5011 Bernie Whitebear Way, Seattle, WA 98199 in Discovery Park

Winter Indigenous Film Showcase - 18+ Shorts Block
2025-02-16 18:00 - 20:00
6:00 PM – Short Film Block (18+)
An edgy and bold selection of short films for mature audiences, pushing the boundaries of storytelling and creativity.
This screening is limited to attendees 18 years of age or older.
Short Films Include:
Fools Gold
Fool’s Gold – Would be thieves are foiled by a Cherokee curse. By TJ Morehouse, Cherokee Nation
The Dark Valley – this film captures perfectly a contrast to human idealism, where we must examine the darker parts of our perpetual slumber, where we jolt out of the most beautiful dream to wake in horror at the truth of our surroundings. Kholan Studie’s character must come to terms with the underbelly of Los Angeles and his own psyche living within such sharp contrast between dark and light.
Po’ele Wai – A weaver, Kunawai, navigates between survival and her connection to the ‘āina (land) while a mysterious rash grows on her body.
How Time Flies – short film
They’re Not Here – a story about two young Indigenous boys coming from different parts of the world, connected but disconnected through one commonality, their culture. Through their differences they are forced to bond closer than ever before in order to survive the night they are being hunted by a SKINWALKER.
Q&A with Tokala Tatum & Ryan Craig following the screening.

Cost: FREE!!!
When: 2/16/25
Where: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
5011 Bernie Whitebear Way, Seattle, WA 98199 in Discovery Park

Winter Indigenous Film Showcase - Shorts Block
2025-02-17 17:00 - 19:00
5:00 PM – Short Film Block
A lineup of compelling short films by Indigenous creators, offering unique perspectives and narratives.
Short Films include:
Standing Above The Clouds – follows Native Hawaiian mother-daughter activists as they stand to protect their sacred mountain Mauna Kea from the building of the world’s largest telescope
Facing The Storm – Hear from the co-founders of Mazaska Talks, a Seattle based Indigenous led grassroots organization focused on protecting Indigenous rights, as they discuss the divestment movement as a tool to combat the destruction of sacred sites and the climate crisis
Tribal Food Sovereignty – Native American Food issues
War For The Woods – Nuu-chah-nulth people have famously defended their territory from old-growth logging for decades.
Roots of Modern Native Activism –
Q&A with Matt Remle & Frank Hopper following the screening. Another lineup of compelling short films by Indigenous creators, offering unique perspectives and narratives.

Winter Indigenous Film - Film WaaPaKe
2025-02-17 19:30 - 21:00
7:30 PM – WaaPaKe
Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin’s deeply personal documentary explores the silence and resilience of residential school Survivors through truth, freedom, and power. For generations, the suffering of residential school Survivors has radiated outward, impacting Indigenous families and communities. Dr. Jules Arita Koostachin’s deeply personal documentary WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) moves beyond intergenerational trauma, with an invitation to unravel the tangled threads of silence and unite in collective freedom and power.
Parental Advisory (R rated)
Cost: FREE!!!
When: 2/17/25
Time: 7:30pm to 9pm
Where: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
5011 Bernie Whitebear Way, Seattle, WA 98199 in Discovery Park

Winter Film Showcase - Spirit Rangers
2025-02-18 17:00 - 18:30
5:00 PM – Spirit Rangers
This animated series by Karissa Valencia follows Native American siblings Kodiak, Summer, and Eddy Skycedar, who secretly become Spirit Rangers to protect the land and its spirits.
Virtual Q&A with Karissa Valencia following the screening.

Winter Indigenous Film Showcase - Indian Road Trip
2025-02-18 19:00 - 21:30
7:00 PM – Indian Road Trip
Two Native con-artists are tasked with driving a cranky elder across the reserve, only to encounter supernatural forces trying to disrupt their journey.
Cost: FREE!!!
When: 2/18/25
Time: 5pm to 9pm
Where: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
5011 Bernie Whitebear Way, Seattle, WA 98199 in Discovery Park

Winter Indigenous Film Showcase DAY 4 - Short Blocks
2025-02-19 17:00 - 19:00
5:00 PM – Short Film Block 3
Short Films Include:
HAAGUA – a new short film featuring a cast of surfers representing 13 tribal nations, traces the roots of a new generation that includes Andy Nieblas (Acjachemen), David Flores Ramos (Nahua), and Kaliko Kahoonei (Hawaiian).
Cleanings A Cakewalk – (Navajo Language Short) An imaginative and independent young boy, Albert, learns the value of hard work and finds his place in his community after having to clean the Chapter House which he finds out is no cake-walk in the park.
Commodity – Commodity is a Modern Native American folktale about one man’s trials and tribulation to get an indian taco.
The Queen’s Flower – animated short adventure for kids that follows Emma, a Native Hawaiian girl in 1915 Honolulu, as she makes a very special gift for the last reigning monarch of Hawai’i, Queen Lili’uokalani.
Janelle Niles: Inconvenient – Janelle Niles is a Black, Mi’kmaw, two-spirited woman from Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia and a stand-up comedian. Despite a tumultuous upbringing, Janelle embraces her biracial experience and queer identity, using stand-up to usher in a new era of inclusive, Canadian comedy.
Virtual Q&A with Janelle Niles following the screening. Featuring a Q&A with comedian and filmmaker Janelle Niles, including her short Inconvenient. Parental Advisory.
When: 2/19/25
Time: 5pm to 7pm
Where: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
5011 Bernie Whitebear Way, Seattle, WA 98199 in Discovery Park

Winter Indigenous Film Showcase DAY 4 - The Knowing
2025-02-19 19:30 - 21:00
7:30 PM – The Knowing
Acclaimed journalist Tanya Talaga searches for her long-lost matriarch Annie, solving an 80-year-old family mystery through her evocative storytelling on screen.
With lush cinematography and evocative storytelling, Anishinaabe journalist Tanya Talaga embarks on a deeply personal search to discover what happened to her great-great-grandmother in The Knowing.
Co-directors Talaga and Kanien’kehá:ka filmmaker Courtney Montour (Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again) use archival footage and intimate interviews to piece together the unknown story of Talaga’s family member, Annie Carpenter. In the first two parts of the four-episode docuseries, they skillfully illustrate how hard it is for Indigenous families to get answers from authorities, especially about those who have entered the residential school or Indian hospital systems.
Armed with a collection of historical documents, Talaga meets previously unknown relatives, discovers her new homelands, and deepens her knowledge about her family’s history. Journeying from the fly-in Northern Ontario community of Peetabeck (Fort Albany First Nation) to Toronto and beyond, The Knowing weaves together residential school history, the Canada-wide recognition of unmarked graves — beginning with Kamloops — and the personal history of Talaga’s family.
Q&A following the screening. Journalist Tanya Talaga embarks on an eight-decade search for her matriarch Annie Carpenter, uncovering a story deeply connected to Canada’s residential school system.
When: 2/19/25
Time: 7:30pm to 9pm
Where: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
5011 Bernie Whitebear Way, Seattle, WA 98199 in Discovery Park

Winter Indigenous Film Showcase - Café Daughter
2025-02-20 17:00 - 19:00
5:00 PM – Café Daughter
Café Daughter is a coming-of-age story about Yvette Wong, a young Chinese Cree girl in 1960s Saskatchewan who is told to keep secret her Cree identity, but later learns to take pride in who she is and embraces her Cree identity.
Q&A with Shelley Niro following the screening – Shelly Niro is a Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte filmmaker and visual artist from New York and Ontario. She is known for her photographs using herself and female family members cast in contemporary positions to challenge the stereotypes and clichés of Native American women.
When: 2/20/25
Time: 5pm to 7:00pm
Where: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
5011 Bernie Whitebear Way, Seattle, WA 98199 in Discovery Park

Winter Indigenous Film Showcase - Joey Clift Spotlight
2025-02-20 19:30 - 21:00
7:30 PM – Joey Clift Spotlight
Joey Clift is a Los Angeles-based comedian, TV writer, director, Emmy-nominated producer, and enrolled member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. Joey attended college to become a local TV weather person because as a kid he didn’t see any Native American comedians on television, and that made him believe he wasn’t allowed to work in comedy. Since then he has learned that this is not true – and his comedy style reflects that. Joey’s work has been featured in The Washington Post, CNN, Pitchfork, NPR, Dead Meat, and Comedy Central.
As a television writer Joey has written for shows such as the 7x Emmy-nominated Spirit Rangers on Netflix, Molly of Denali and Alma’s Way on PBS, New Looney Tunes and Lego Ninjago: Decoded on Cartoon Network, and Paw Patrol on Nickelodeon. Joey Clift created, directed, and wrote Gone Native, a Webby Award-winning Comedy Central Digital series featuring many of today’s top Native American comedians, and his short films have screened everywhere from Just For Laughs to the Smithsonian Museum.
Joey is also the creator of the LA Underground Cat Network, a 40,000-member strong online community for Los Angeles comedians to share cute pictures of their cats. He’s kind of a cat guy.
Q&A with Joey Clift during the screening. An evening dedicated to celebrating Joey Clift’s contributions to Indigenous storytelling, featuring highlights from his impressive career.

When: 2/20/25
Time: 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Where: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
5011 Bernie Whitebear Way, Seattle, WA 98199 in Discovery Park

Winter Indigenous Film Showcase - Bring Them Home
2025-02-21 17:00 - 18:30
5:00 PM – Bring Them Home
This powerful documentary tells the story of Blackfoot people working to reintroduce wild buffalo herds to their ancestral lands, a journey of cultural restoration and healing.
Q&A following screening
Cost: FREE!!!
When: 2/21/25
Time: 5pm to 6:30pm
Where: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
5011 Bernie Whitebear Way, Seattle, WA 98199 in Discovery Park

Winter Indigenous Showcase - Hey! Viktor (18+)
2025-02-21 19:00 - 21:00
7:00 PM – Hey! Viktor
In this comedy-drama, Cody Lightning stars as a former child actor trying to produce a sequel to Smoke Signals decades after his fleeting fame.
This screening is limited to attendees 18 years of age or older.

In-Person Q&A with Cody Lightning following the screening

Cost: FREE!!!
When: 2/21/25
Time: 7pm to 9:00pm
Where: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
5011 Bernie Whitebear Way, Seattle, WA 98199 in Discovery Park

Winter Indigenous Film Showcase - Fish Wars
2025-02-22 11:00 - 12:30
Join us for the FINAL day of the first annual Winter Indigenous Film Showcase, a week-long Indigenous storytelling celebration. All people are welcome to attend (up to 200).
11:00 AM – Fish War
Explore the 1974 decision that upheld Indigenous fishing rights in Washington, a pivotal moment in environmental stewardship and activism.
In 1974, a conservative federal judge upheld Indigenous fishing rights in Washington, ending violent clashes with law enforcement and laying the foundation for environmental stewardship in this locally produced activism documentary.

Directors

Charles Atkinson
Jeff Ostenson
Skylar Wagner

Stars

Ramona Bennett
Willie Frank III
Michael Grayum

Cost: FREE!!!
When: 2/22/25
Time: 11am to 12:30pm
Where: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
5011 Bernie Whitebear Way, Seattle, WA 98199 in Discovery Park

Film Function after the last film from 6pm to 10pm with Meet & Greet for only $25

Winter Indigenous Film Showcase - Imagining the Indian
2025-02-22 14:00 - 16:00
Join us for the FINAL day of the first annual Winter Indigenous Film Showcase, a week-long Indigenous storytelling celebration. All people are welcome to attend (up to 200).
2:00 PM – Imagining the Indian
This award-winning documentary delves into the fight to end Native American mascots in sports and beyond.

In-Person Q&A with Ben West & Yancey Burns following the screening.

Cost: FREE!!!
When: 2/22/25
Time: 2pm to 4:00pm
Where: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
5011 Bernie Whitebear Way, Seattle, WA 98199 in Discovery Park

Film Function after the last film from 6pm to 10pm with Meet & Greet for only $25

The Filmmakers Function
2025-02-22 18:00 - 22:00
The Filmmakers Function
Are you a filmmaker wanting to mingle with other artists from around the country? Or a fan of the films in this year’s showcase? Purchase a ticket to the Filmmakers Function and enjoy a night of conversation and a love of films.
$20
Tickets available soon!

Powwow Dance Classes Day 3
2025-02-27 18:30 - 20:30
You don’t need to attend every class to attend this class!
We are excited to announce free Powwow Dance classes starting on Thursday, January 23, 2025, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, running for 22 weeks at Daybreak Star Cultural Center! These classes will offer participants a welcoming introduction to the significance, traditions, and spirit of Powwow dancing. Whether you are reconnecting with culture or learning for the first time, this is a wonderful opportunity to prepare to join the Powwow circle (optional) this summer at our Indian Days Powwow in July.
This program is open to the entire community! FREE!!!
We look forward to dancing together!

Powwow Dance Classes Day 4
2025-03-06 18:30 - 20:30

Powwow Dance Classes Day 5
2025-03-13 08:00 - 17:00
You don’t need to attend every class to attend this class!
Free Powwow Dance classes starting on Thursday, January 23, 2025, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, running for 22 weeks at Daybreak Star Cultural Center! These classes will offer participants a welcoming introduction to the significance, traditions, and spirit of Powwow dancing. Whether you are reconnecting with culture or learning for the first time, this is a wonderful opportunity to prepare to join the Powwow circle (optional) this summer at our Indian Days Powwow in July.
This program is open to the entire community! FREE!!!
We look forward to dancing together!

Powwow Dance Classes Day 6
2025-03-20 18:30 - 20:30

Powwow Dance Classes Day 7
2025-03-27 18:30 - 20:30

Powwow Dance Classes Day 8
2025-04-03 18:30 - 20:30

EMBODIED ALTARS DANCE CLASS
2025-04-07 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-04-14 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-04-21 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-04-28 18:30 - 20:00
EMBODIED ALTARS is an all-levels dance class hosted by Daybreak Star Radio. Designed by Indigenous Chicana artist and El Sueño director, Alicia Mullikin. Dancers will utilize Indigenous principles within movement, meditation, and song as a way to practice gratitude, honor the land, and recognize their ancestors. The class is for those who are interested in reflection, intention setting, and a discovery of their own stories. No dance experience necessary.
Class Time: Mondays, 6:30-8PM
Venue: Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
5011 Bernie Whitebear Way,
Seattle, WA 98199
Sliding Scale: $10-$20* per class. Sign Up Now!
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This venue is ADA accessible w/ ADA bathrooms and a wheelchair lift to the second floor. Class will be held in the ballroom space, this area has 5 ADA parking spaces.
There are an additional 25 parking spots in our lot, there is ample parking space along the road leading up to Daybreak star as well as the Discovery Park North Parking lot.
What to bring: water, comfortable clothes to dance in, journal, your personal identity, a desire to explore new pathways and an open mind/heart.
Hosted at Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
Produced by United Indians of All Tribes Foundation
In Partnership with El Sueno Dance & Daybreak Star Radio
“Indigenize the Airwaves” “Art. Culture. Reclamation.”
*Talk to us about BIPOC and Queer/LGBTQIA2S+ Scholorships*
Please contact @el.sueno.dance on IG for private conversations about this topic.

Powwow Dance Classes Day 9
2025-04-10 18:30 - 20:30

Powwow Dance Classes Day 10
2025-04-24 18:30 - 20:30

Powwow Dance Classes Day 11
2025-05-01 18:30 - 20:30

Origins: The Last Reefnetters
2025-05-04 14:00 - 17:00
Join Cascade PBS & Daybreak Star Radio for a powerful community event!
📅 May 4, 2025 – SUNDAY
🕝 Doors at 2 PM | Program at 3 PM
📍 Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, light food provided
🎟️ Free
RSVP: bit.ly/LastReefnettersEvent
We’re screening Origins: The Last Reefnetters — a moving documentary on the ancient reefnet fishing practices of the Lummi Nation and Northern Straits Salish tribes — followed by a live community discussion.
Come learn, connect, and be part of honoring these powerful stories.
