Donalda Lyons’ phone began ringing on the first day Eagle Village opened its doors to Indigenous homeless people in November 2019. The shelter, tucked away in Seattle’s industrial SODO neighborhood, was created to address the unique financial disparities and systematic oppression of Native people in Washington state.
Native people account for only 1 percent of the general population in King County, yet it is estimated that of the 11,751 people in King County who are homeless, 15 percent are Indigenous.
Read more in the Nov. 4-10, 2020 issue.