For the Reporter
The Arise, Shine Native Men & Women’s Conference, featuring guest speaker Hattie Kauffman, a former CBS and ABC news correspondent, comes to the Muckleshoot Reservation in Auburn on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The conference begins at 7 p.m. Friday at the Pentecostal Church on the reservation, 39731 Auburn-Enumclaw Road SE. It is open to the public.
Kauffman is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. Saturday.
Kauffman, a member of the Nez Perce Tribe, worked for more than two decades as a correspondent for major network news. She was the first Native American to file a report on a national news broadcast.
Kauffman began to report and anchor for KING 5, earning four Emmy awards. ABC’s “Good Morning America” whisked Kauffman to New York in 1987, where she served as a special correspondent and frequent substitute anchor.
In 1990, Kauffman moved to CBS News as a correspondent and substitute anchor on “CBS This Morning”. In her two decades with the network, she also reported for “48 Hours”, “Street Stories”, “Sunday Morning”, “CBS Radio”, “CBS Special Reports”, the “Early Show”, and the “CBS Evening News”.
Kauffman’s memoir, “Falling Into Place”, was released in September 2013.
Workshops, vendors and demonstration of various native crafts will fill Saturday. Men workshop speakers are: Kenny Williams (Muckleshoot); Truman Santiago (Ote-Missouria); Doug James (Lummi) and Aaron Williams (Alabama Coushatta). Women workshop speakers are: Wanda Sampson (Yakama); Ann Masten (Quinault); Arlene Olney (Yakama); and Stella Morrison (Yakama).
Other special guests include: former state Sen. Claudia Kauffman, who will introduce her sister, Hattie; Chief Maureen Chapman (Sto:lo Nation from Canada); Ella R. Wilson, senior prosecuting attorney for the Navajo Nation.
Brian Cladoosby, of the Swinomish Tribal Chair, and president of the National Congress of American Indians, speaks at 11 a.m. Sunday. Cladoosby was recently reelected to serve the tribes throughout the United States for a second term.
Jerry Chapman, of Sto:lo Nation and drum speaker for the Nations, will provided music Saturday evening and Sunday morning.
Pentecostal Church and Firestarters host the event in honor of the Muckleshoot Tribe.
