Hard work, community, and respect for our planet
Annessa’s mother and grandparents taught her the importance of community at an early age—the value of hard work and taking care of our planet. These values shape our movement today, to represent the cities of Gladstone and Oregon City, as well as parts of Oatfield, Johnson City, Jennings Lodge, Clackamas, Oak Grove, and Canemah at the Oregon House of Representatives.
Annessa Hartman (she/her) is a member of the Haudenosaunee, Cayuga Nation, Snipe Clan—the first Indigenous City Council member and a resident of the city of Gladstone, Oregon. Hartman is the Marketplace & Retail Coordinator for the Native American Youth And Family Center (NAYA) dedicated to empowering Native businesses to realize and achieve their full potential and success.
Annessa’s background in events and hospitality have enabled Annessa to utilize her inherent strength of planning, goal setting, collaboration, and communication. Hospitality can be a thankless calling—like leadership—that builds small wins eventually to monumental change with diligence, focus, and humility.
Annessa uplifts and supports small Native business owners, helping them to establish, promote, and grow a sustainability at the Native American Youth & Family Center (NAYA). Her work at NAYA mirrors her hope for all Oregon Families—prosperity and independence to pursuit their dreams.
Annessa and her family currently reside in Gladstone where Annessa serves as a City Councilor. Her work and the sea-change they’ve brought to Gladstone has always been about transparency, accessibility, and amplifying historically unheard voices. She has worked diligently to view policy from an equitable lens and empowers others to speak their truth to local leadership.
You can depend on Annessa to carry our voices and needs to Salem, and fight for all Oregonians.
Our republic was influenced by the Iroquois Confederacy, as were many of the democratic principles in the constitution itself.
Select Committee on Indian Affairs,
Resolution 331, October 5, 1988
Logo Indigenous Made,
by Against the Current Consulting.
The Great Tree of Peace (Skaęhetsiˀkona)
Over 1,000 years ago, the Five Nations were brought together in peace at Onondaga Lake, where they planted the Great Tree of Peace and and created the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the oldest living democracy on earth, for which Annessa belongs.
The Tree of Peace is a metaphor for how peace can grow if it is nurtured. Like a tall tree, peace can provide protection and comfort, peace spreads its protective branches to create a place of peace where we can gather and renew ourselves, and its large white roots rise out of the ground so people can follow their journey to peace. We all nurture the Tree of Peace.
Working together
Help us ensure a truly inclusive, diverse, and prosperous Oregon for everyone—built around Oregon Families, our communities, and the promises we need to keep to our planet.