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The Daybreak Star Cultural Center is a Native American cultural center in Seattle, Washington , described by its parent organization United Indians Of All Tribes as "an urban base for Native Americans in the Seattle area." Located on 20 acres (81,000 m²) in Seattle's Discovery Park in the Magnolia neighborhood, the center owes its existence to Bernie Whitebear and other Native Americans, who staged a generally successful self-styled "invasion" and occupation of the land in 1970 after most of the Fort Lawton military base was declared surplus by the U.S. Department Of Defense . The existing building, an impressive piece of modern architecture incorporating many elements of traditional Northwest Native architecture, dates from 1977 . As Of 2004 , plans have been approved to supplement it with a complex of three more related buildings, to be known as the People's Lodge. Daybreak Star, a major nucleus of Native American cultural activity in its region, functions as a conference center, a location for Pow Wow s, the location for a Head Start school program, and an art gallery. The center's permanent art collection includes a variety of large art works by and about Native Americans, notably "Blue Jay", a 30 foot (9 m) wide, 12 foot (3.7 m) high sculpture by Bernie Whitebear's brother Lawney Reyes , which came to the Center in 2004 after hanging prominently for over 30 years at the Bank of California building in Downtown Seattle . (The Bank of California merged with Union Bank in 1996 to form Union Bank Of California .) Also included in that donation was a major oil painting by Guy Anderson based on a traditional Northwest Native representation of a Whale . EXTERNAL LINK |
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