Colleen Echohawk aims to be Seattle's first indigenous mayor: ‘We have to find ways to change’

Native American progressive Democrat has been working for years to address crisis levels of homelessness in Seattle

Colleen Echohawk, a Native American woman and key advocate in Seattle's homelessness crisis, is running for mayor of the Pacific Northwest city and laying the groundwork for it to potentially elect its first indigenous mayor.

Echohawk, an enrolled member of the Kithehaki Band of the Pawnee Nation and a member of the Upper Athabascan people of Mentasta Lake, is a progressive Democrat, but one, she said, with strong roots in pragmatism".