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Our Oceania NW network comprise of Indigenous Oceanians who are intergenerational, queer inclusive, multi-lingual, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers and grandparents who are proud stewards of our Moana Heritage.
Why Oceania NW?
Oceanians from Melanesia, Micronesia & Polynesia, are the fastest growing communities in the Pacific Northwest comprising the second biggest Pasifika Diaspora in North America. Oceanians have experienced some of the harshest realities of colonization, occupation and hyper-militarization enforced on them by non-Native people that has lead to global displacement.
Oceania NW contains the brilliance birthed from the cultural and spiritual DNA of our people to combat racist systems of oppression and offer up meaningful solutions to mitigate poverty, improve socio-cultural welfare and organize our people to stand in power. Pacific Islanders belong. Pacific Islander issues are important. Pacific Islander children are brilliant. Pacific Islander Indigenous values are sacred.
Our Mission
Oceania NW equips Pacific Islanders and other most impacted communities through leading community health initiatives, creating village healing spaces, and offering meaningful social and economic stabilization support.
Our Vision
We uplift the power of unity in Pasifika communities to build thriving networks of care for generations to come. We are here. We do not believe in cancel culture. We are rooted instead in Indigenous cycles of relational healing.
Strength in Unity
Our values encapsulate our essence: unity binds us as one people, one soul, one destiny. While we respect the unique lived experiences each member, we move together in unison.
Sacred Hospitality
Hospitality ensures all are embraced in our village's warm embrace. In our village, no one is marginalized or canceled but lovingly affirmed in the inherent dignity they carry.
Radical Belonging
In our community, belonging is as vast as the ocean. There is room for everyone to be rooted in love and in community just as the ocean holds us all. We are therefore I am.
Respect for all Persons
Respect is the thread weaving our intergenerational nets. We believe in respect between our elders and youth, between our women, men and queer folks, and for those of different faiths.
Oceanian Heritage
Our Indigenous Oceanian heritage guides us with ancestral wisdom as we journey forward here in the US Pasifika Diaspora.
Healing Justice
We practice the healing & restorative protocols of our forebears that center loving accountability and truth telling as pathways towards healing.
Weekly Village Market Food Programs
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Our Monthly Community Events
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Our Weekly Programs
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Main Office: 1158 Industry Drive, Tukwila WA
EIN: 93-2622247 Oceania Northwest is a 501c3 Nonprofit
Oceania Northwest acknowledges that we live and work on stolen Coast Salish land. We recognize the land stewardship of all Indigenous people since time immemorial and the disruption of this work by white occupation. We are aligned to efforts in supporting Indigenous sovereignty in the Pacific Northwest as we also fight for Indigenous sovereignty over our home, Oceania.