Governor's Heritage Awards2005 Virginia Beavert of Toppenish, Yakama Nation elder, teacher of sacred songs and ceremonies, and of Yakama Sahaptin and other Plateau languages.
Wilho Saari of Naselle, a Finnish-American musician and master of the kantele (the traditional Finnish zither).
Wapato Indian Club, a Native American heritage club and dance troupe from Wapato Middle School on the Yakama Reservation, Director Margaret Carter accepted the award.
2002-2004 No awards presented
2001 Salvador Baldovinos - Mexican American musician Tatjana Krynytzky - Ukrainian traditional artist Hazel Pete - Chehalis basket weaver
2000 Ralph Bennett - Haida woodcarver Mariachi Huenachi - High School Mariachi band Irene Martin - Fisher scholar and historian
1999 Gloria Napulani Fujii - Polynesian cultural leader Michael Vlahovich - Yugoslavia boat builder Bin-Liang Wang - Beijing opera producer
1998 Skaidrite Abolins - Latvian embroiderer Ed Carriere - Suquamish carver Trinidad Marquez - Mexican-American violinist
1997 Carlton Appelo - Finish-American historian Sara Quaempts - Yakama traditional artist Maria Seo - Korean-American musician Wing Luke Museum - Asian/Pacific Museum, Museum Director Ron Chew
1996 Pauline Hillaire - Lummi teacher & historian Robert Sherwood - Wellpinit storyteller & teacher Vela Luka Croatian Dance Ensemble and Ruze Dalmatinke Orchestra, Director Maria Petrish - Ethnic music & dance
1995 Elaine Timentwa Emerson - Colville basket weaver Larry A. George - Artist & storyteller Otto Oja - Logging historian
1994 Palmer Johnson - African-American jazz pianist Tazue Kiyono Sasaki - Buyo dance teacher Emilija Tutlys - Lithuanian weaver
1993 Santiago Almeida - Conjunto musician Nettie Jackson - Klickitat master basketmaker Lillian Pullen - Quileute tradition bearer
1992 Erasmo Gamboa - Mexican-American historian Bruce (Subiyay) Miller - Skokomish ceremonial leader
1991 Fred Cordova - Filipino-American historian Joseph Locati - Italian-American historian Patrinell Wright - African-American choral director
1990 Cecilia Svinth Carpenter - Nisqually historian Ralph Hayes - African-American historian Selma Muller - German-American historian
1989 Marie Bakke Bremner - Norwegian quilter & rosemaler David Forlines - Quileute tradition bearer Marija Franulovich - Croatian tradition bearer Andrew George - Yakama storyteller & teacher Woodrow Gifford - Logger poet Nhia Yia Heu - Hmong master basketmaker Vi Hilbert - Upper Skagit Tribal historian Lucy Liu - Chinese painter, calligrapher Esther Mumford - African-American historian Ivan Novikoff - Russian-American dancer Gordon Ekvall Tracie - Swedish dancer & folklorist
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