OUR PARTNERS

  • Duwamish Cultural Center and Tribe

    Duwamish Tribal Services, is a 501[c]3 organization established in 1983 by the Duwamish Tribal Council to promote the social, cultural, and economic survival of the Duwamish Tribe.

  • Green Seattle Partnerships

    The Green Seattle Partnership is a collaboration between the City of Seattle, Forterra, community groups and non-profits, businesses, schools, and thousands of volunteers working together to restore and actively maintain the City’s forested parklands.

  • West Duwamish Greenbelt Trails

    West Duwamish Greenbelt Trails helps establish volunteer based education and land stewardship in the largest forest left in Seattle

  • Seattle Giving Garden Network

    Seattle's Giving Garden Network (SGGN) is an entirely volunteer-run association serving as a connector for hundreds of individual and community gardens dedicated to growing and giving in the city.

  • West Seattle Tool Library

    The West Seattle Tool Library is a community-led project to provide pay-what-you-can community access to a wide range of tools, training, and relevant advice.

  • Seattle Tilth Alliance

    Tilth Alliance works in community with Washington farmers, gardeners and eaters to build a sustainable, healthy and equitable food future.

  • Dirt Corps

    Dirt Corps is a collaborative team of professionals and community partners working together to increase access to green jobs and to foster healthy communities. Our work provides skilled landscape consultation, including design/build, with an equally important goal of sharing our trade with others in our region interested in restoration and green infrastructure.

  • WDGT/R2R Project

    The Heron’s Nest is proud to help facilitate in the completion of the Ridge to River Trail Project lead by University of Washington to interconnect surrounding communities and school of the Duwamish Greenbelt to the Duwamish River.

  • Sawhorse Revolution

    "Our mission is to foster confident, community-oriented youth through the power of carpentry and craft. Sawhorse Revolution strives to see, acknowledge and identify the intersections of individual, cultural, and institutional racism and social injustice. We are inspired to create equitable change within a framework of “feet-on-the-ground” education, empowerment, and leadership, in and for our community."

  • Seattle Global Shapers

    The Global Shapers Community is a network of young people driving dialogue, action and change.

  • Precious Plastic

    Precious Plastic exists to reduce plastic waste.Sometimes we do it through boosting recycling. Sometimes through new biodegradable materials. Some other time by adopting zero waste lifestyles.

  • Seeding Community Newsletter

    A bi-weekly resource tending to the relational soil of our PNW community: nurturing supportive care & authentic belonging, embodied healing & spiritual development, and our collective liberation & remembrance of our interdependence with our land.

  • Myco-Uprrhizal

    This Organization has been educating people about the benefits of fungi as allies in their health, environment, and culinary cuisine since 2011. Group members have been cultivating with this purpose and have put forward the energy to start a business with the same ethics and goals.

In Support Of the Duwamish Tribe

The Duwamish People have resided on what is known as Seattle and King County land since time immemorial. Where they once inhabited 90 villages in the Puget Sound area and had over 54,000 acres of land taken from them for nothing in return.

They now own less than an acre of land in Seattle and have been unfairly stripped of their federal recognition. Despite being the first signatories of the Treaty of Point Elliott in 1855, the federal government has consistently failed to honor its commitments to the tribe.

The Heron’s Nest Project began in the summer of 2020, when members from the Shared Spaces Foundation happened upon a dilapidated parcel for sale near The Duwamish Longhouse. Through discussions with surrounding community organizations, members and tribal services The Heron’s Nest Project developed into an idea towards a shared, brighter future and work began to clean up the land.

Shared Spaces is currently leasing the 3.56-acre parcel adjacent to the Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center in West Seattle. We are collectively working to repurpose and renovate facilities for community use while raising funds to purchase the land in order to steward and repatriate it to The Duwamish Tribe.

With more land to grow native plants and food, rebuild community, practice cultural traditions, and teach youth lasting skills, the Duwamish can reclaim some of the power that was unjustly taken from them by colonial oppressors. A trail interconnecting The Duwamish Longhouse and The Heron’s Nest is available for access on land stewardship days. 

The Heron’s Nest project aims not only to empower the Duwamish Tribe, but offer assistance in awareness around their recognition. This project relies on the blessing and guidance of Duwamish Tribal Services. Our proposal has been thoroughly vetted and approved by tribal leadership.

As of today, we are partnered with 20 local organizations that plan to make use of the Heron’s Nest facilities. Partners like The West Seattle Tool Library and Dirt Corps will utilize to use the classrooms to empower underrepresented communities and increase their access to green jobs. Once the land begins to heal from years of misuse it will again become a place for the Duwamish and surrounding communities to flourish in.