Ida Nason Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Ida Nason Aronica was an influential Kittitas Band tribal elder and the great granddaughter of Chief Owhi. ESD made Washington history by being the first district in the state to name a school after a local female Native American leader. Ida was significant in shaping the history of the Kittitas Valley. In 1986, she appeared in the PBS documentary "Everything Change, Everything Change: Recollections of Ida Nason, an American Indian Elder," which can be seen on YouTube. Ida lived to be more than 100 years old, and generations of her family still call the Kittitas Valley home.