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Luana Reyes (February 20, 1933〔Date of birth as per the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)〕 – November 5, 2001)〔"A Tribute…" 2002〕) was an American Indian health care administrator. As executive director of the Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB) 1972–1982, she grew that institution from a staff of five to nearly 200 and made it a model for urban Indian institutions; subsequently, she worked for the federal Indian Health Service, eventually becoming deputy director of that 14,000-person institution.〔Reyes 2002, pp. 185–86.〕〔Reyes 2002 gives her title as "assistant director", but the July 1999 (Final Report ) of the National Congress of American Indians National Policy Work Group on Contract Support Costs (accessed online March 11, 2007) gives it as Deputy Director, as does (Summary Report for the “Mobilizing American Indian and Alaska Native Communities Workshop on Improving Cardiovascular Health”, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute — Indian Health Board Partnership ), May 7–8, 2001 (accessed online March 11, 2007) and other similar official documents.〕 On October 10, 2001, shortly before her death from aplastic anemia at the age of 68, she received the Presidential Rank Meritorious Award.〔"A Tribute…" 2002; Reyes 2002, p. 186〕〔(Green 2001 ).〕 ==Life== Reyes was born in Portland, Oregon.〔 Her mother, born Mary Christian, was Sin Aikst (now known as Lakes tribe, one of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation); her father, Julian Reyes, was Filipino, but had largely assimilated to an Indian way of life. Her mother's father, Alex Christian, was known as ''Pic Ah Kelowna,'' "White Grizzly Bear"; her great uncle (brother of her maternal grandmother) was Chief James Bernard, a Sin Aikst leader in the early 20th century.〔Reyes 2002, p. 28–50.〕 Reyes' early childhood was spent largely on the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington. In 1935–1937, during the period of construction of the Grand Coulee Dam, her parents had moved to the Coulee and started a Chinese restaurant even though "()either of them could prepare Chinese food except for simple dishes such as pork fried rice, egg foo-yung, and chop suey". They soon acquired an ethnically Chinese partner and cook, Harry Wong; Wong bought them out of the restaurant in 1937.〔Reyes 2002, pp. 74–75.〕 Her parents separated in 1939 and subsequently divorced;〔Reyes 2002, p. 90.〕 her mother would later work again for Wong in Tacoma, Washington, and eventually marry him.〔Reyes 2002, pp. 185, 194.〕 From 1940 to 1942, Reyes and her older brother Lawney were students at the Chemawa Indian School five miles north of Salem, Oregon〔Reyes 2002, ''passim.''〕 After graduating at the head of her class〔Reyes 2006, p. 52〕 from Okanogan High School (Okanogan, Washington) in 1951, she moved to Tacoma, Washington, living with her mother, working in a department store and for Harry Wong's restaurant.〔Reyes 2002, p. 185.〕 She worked over the next twenty years in the private sector in San Francisco, Hawaii, and Seattle before succeeding her younger brother, activist Bernie Whitebear, as executive director of the Seattle Indian Health Board, which, over the next decade she transformed from a tiny organization with a staff of five 〔Reyes 2002, p. 185, 187.〕 into "a comprehensive community health care center with a multimillion-dollar budget and over 190 full-time health professionals and support staff."〔 During this time, she helped to found the American Indian Health Care Association, now known as the National Council on Urban Indian Health.〔 Subsequently, after a brief stint as executive director of the Puyallup Nation Health Authority community health program,〔 she worked at the headquarters of the federal Indian Health Service (Rockville, Maryland), eventually becoming director of headquarters operations, chief financial officer, and deputy director of that 14,000-person institution.〔〔Reyes 2002, pp. 185–86, but see note above on the title "deputy director".〕〔For "director of headquarters operations" see (Reyes' testimony ) before the Indian Affairs Committee of the U.S. Senate, October 7, 1998, regarding tribal self-governance and healthcare. Accessed online March 11, 2007〕〔For "chief financial officer" see (Green 2001 ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Luana Reyes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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