Their Tribal Museum is a wonderful place to visit if you're ever vacationing in Seattle. It's an easy ferry ride away from downtown Seattle. Launched in 1989, it raises funds to support 29 tribal colleges in the United States that educate American Indians. Foundations underwrite all of the Fund's administrative costs, so all gifts to the Fund go directly to the colleges for scholarships for Indian youth, plus other needs. The AICF seeks to raise not only money, but also to promote awareness of the benefit of tribally controlled higher education.
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The privacy-protected site is run without profit by John Breen, an Indiana software programmer who initially wanted to support Third World education but decided hunger was the priority. As his world map arrestingly illustrates, starvation kills 24,000 people daily, most of them children. This site, run by a man from Denmark who now lives in Montreal, offers a lot of fine information about the misrepresentation of Chief Seattle's speech, plus links to other Chief Seattle sites. This collection of authentic American Indian Arts and Crafts includes gourds, paintings, decorative pillows, masks, and other contemporary interpretations of traditional American Indian designs.