Luana Reyes
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Luana Reyes （February 20, 1933 – November 5, 2001） was an American Indian health care administrator.
As executive director of the Seattle Indian Health Board （SIHB） 1972–1982, she grew that institution from a staff of five to nearly 200 and made it a model for urban Indian institutions; subsequently,
she worked for the federal Indian Health Service, eventually becoming deputy director of that 14,000-person institution.
On October 10, 2001, shortly before her death from aplastic anemia at the age of 68, she received the Presidential Rank Meritorious Award.
Reyes was born in Portland, Oregon.
Her mother, born Mary Christian, was Sin Aikst （now known as Lakes tribe, one of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation）; her father, Julian Reyes, was Filipino, but had largely assimilated to an Indian way of life.
Her mother's father, Alex Christian, was known as Pic Ah Kelowna, "White Grizzly Bear"; her great uncle （brother of her maternal grandmother） was Chief James Bernard, a Sin Aikst leader in the early 20th century.
Reyes' early childhood was spent largely on the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington.
In 1935–1937, during the period of construction of the Grand Coulee Dam, her parents had moved to the Coulee and started a Chinese restaurant
even though "[n]either of them could prepare Chinese food except for simple dishes such as pork fried rice, egg foo-yung, and chop suey".
They soon acquired an ethnically Chinese partner and cook, Harry Wong; Wong bought them out of the restaurant in 1937.
Her parents separated in 1939 and subsequently divorced; her mother would later work again for Wong in Tacoma, Washington, and eventually marry him....