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Washington Indigenous families still living with the 'very deliberate effort to wipe us out'

The U.S. Interior Department has set out to document abusive boarding schools that once targeted Indigenous tribes, their cultures and their children. A first-of-its-kind report from the agency's Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative puts the extent of that abuse in black and white.
- Katie Campbell
The "The Arts Hour" from the BBC World Service hits the stage in Seattle

Kim Malcolm talks with The Arts Hour host Nikki Bedi about Saturday night's show at the Rainier Arts Center.
- Kim Malcolm
Seeing people like herself changed this Seattle teen’s life

Mia Crump is a musically talented teen determined to claim her space in the music industry, despite not seeing herself and other people with disabilities represented in it. Her friend since middle school, Lily Turner, shares Mia’s story of determination for making and playing music.
- Lily Turner
Her death shocked Seattle's Ethiopian community. New novel revisits the trial to get her justice

A decade later, people who had contact with the case of Hana Alemu Williams can’t forget the heartbreaking details of her “homicide by abuse.” The writer David Guterson revisits her case in his latest novel.
- Amy Radil
How our Winter Olympians fared: No medals, but personal triumphs for athletes with Northwest ties

None of the thirteen Winter Olympians with ties to the Pacific Northwest is coming home from the Beijing Games with a medal. Still, many of the Northwest's elite skiers, skaters and sliders will leave Sunday's closing ceremony with feelings of accomplishment, or relief just to have made it through the ever-present COVID-19 testing gauntlet, not to mention the geopolitical tensions of competing on Chinese soil in 2022.
- Tom Banse
This Seattle non-profit is giving $5,000 grants to local musicians, no strings attached

‘It helped them make records. It helped them hire professional services, publicists, promotions. The real challenge, when you're an emerging artist, is you don't have somebody else helping you with a lot of these things that you need to do.’
- Kim Malcolm
This 'My Fair Lady' star knows the stigma of language firsthand

Arab-American actor Shereen Ahmed brings her own story to My Fair Lady's Eliza Doolittle.
- Bill Radke
A Nutcracker performance that will be less overwhelming, for people with sensory issues

Snowflakes and sugar-plum ferries will dance across the stage as usual, but the show will be altered to have less crash, bang and strobe elements.
- Paige Browning
Keep on rocking in the Covid world: Live music returns to Seattle

"People’s joy and energy is infectious and it’s hard to create that on your own," said Jessica Dobson of the band Deep Sea Diver.
- Megan Farmer
DIY funerals: Your family can be your own funeral director, if you want

An informal network of consumer activists, bereaved parents and green burial advocates are building websites to advise and empower families who may wish to handle funeral arrangements themselves. "Home funerals" are legal, yet just one of a widening set of options for how to lay a loved one to rest.
- Tom Banse

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