Pacific Region



UNITY Regional Profile
The Pacific Region consists of geographical areas and the states of California and Hawaii. The Pacific region has 40 affiliated youth councils in 2 states within the UNITY Network.
2022 SPRING Pacific VIRTUAL MEET-UP
2021 Fall Pacific Virtual Meet-Up
UNITY News: Pacific Updates
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Pacific Regional Representative: Sineca Jackson
Sineca Jackson – UNITY Pacific Area Representative
Tribe: Akimel O’odham
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Sineca Sunflower Jackson comes from the village of Gu e ki (Big House), Sacaton on the Gila River Indian Community. She is the 19-year-old daughter of Jaime and Arlanna Jackson and a sibling to Caleb, Sayuri, and Colby. Sineca is a certified Clinical Medical Assistant, Phlebotomy Technician and currently attends the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, majoring in Pre-Nursing. During the 2023 National UNITY Conference, Sineca was elected to serve as the Pacific Region Area Representative for the UNITY Executive Committee. She looks forward to the upcoming year of serving as the Pacific Region Representative. She is honored to not only be representing her own community but also being able to represent and be an outlet for all indigenous youth within the States of Hawai’i and California.
PACIFIC REGION
Seneca Jackson, Pacific Regional Representative
National UNITY Council Executive Committee
Pacific Region Youth Councils
- Agua Caliente Young Adults
- Tule River Youth Council
- Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indian Youth Council
- Soboba Youth Council
- Bishop Tribal Youth Council
- Tribal Youth Ambassadors
- San Manuel Youth Committee
- Tachi-Yokut Youth Council
- Coyote Valley Youth Council
- San Diego Inter-Tribal UNITY Youth Council
- West Coast Native Youth
- San Pasqual Native Youth Council
- Wiyot Youth Council
- Bay Area Inter-Tribal Youth Council
- Santa Ynez Chumash
- UAIC UNITY Youth Council
- InterTribal Youth Council of Orange County
- Viejas Youth Leaders
- Morongo Band of Mission Indians Youth Council
- Future Generations TRTC
- United Ata’axum Youth Council
- Torres Martinez Youth Council
- Susanville Unity Youth Council
- Round Valley UNITY Youth Council
- ACORN
- Big River Youth Council
- Cedarville Rancheria
- Hoopa Valley Tribal Jr. Youth Council
- La Jolla GENERATIONS Program
- Sacramento Native TANF Youth council
- SCTCA Native Youth Success Program
- Sherman Indian High School
- Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians
- Southern California Native Youth
- Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation
- Table Mountain Rancheria Youth Council
- Tuolumne MeWuk TANF
- UNITY Youth Council of Kings County
Bronson Kainoa Azama, 22
Tribe: Kānaka Maoli, Hawaiʻi
Bronson is a senior at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa majoring in Political Science focusing on Indigenous Politics. He is expecting to graduate in 2024. He is a youth trailblazer who has advocated at every level of government from the City Council to the United Nations. His experience, skill sets, and values are proven and tested to help facilitate change in government and the community to benefit kānaka maoli and our ʻāina (natural environment/family).
What does it mean to you to be an environmental ambassador? In our traditions in the Pacific the Earth, Sky, and Sea, and all natural things of this earth are viewed as ʻohana, family, or kaainga, also family. Our duties entail caring for our grandmother earth, sky father, and our mother who is the sea. It is our sacred duty to protect our family, the titles bestowed upon our people identify who we are. Such a title as to be an Earth Ambassador is to be someone who embodies what is best for our natural family to maintain a reciprocal relationship to ensure they are best capable to feed their children the humans, the birds, the fish, and so much more. An Earth Ambassador speaks and acts in the best interest of the Earth(grandmother, to ensure our cousins the bird and whales are cared for amongst all other relatives of the natural world, and that our grandmother can continue to nourish life that sustains all generations to come after our time in this world.

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