Category: Communal Healing

Communal Healing Community Identity

Mayagna Communities Work to Achieve Food Sovereignty after Hurricanes Iota and Eta

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Source: https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/mayagna-communities-work-achieve-food-sovereignty-after-hurricanes-iota-and-eta By Bia’ni Madsa’ Juárez López (Ayuuk ja’ay and Binnizá, CS Staff) The Kalwahai Center is an organization dedicated to the cultural, environmental, and economic development of Indigenous communities in…Continue readingMayagna Communities Work to Achieve Food Sovereignty after Hurricanes Iota and Eta

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Federal funds boost Native American health services in San Francisco

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Source: https://www.sfexaminer.com/archives/federal-funds-boost-native-american-health-services-in-san-francisco/article_93b55a00-1d07-5ff6-8700-596b52b08ac3.html “You can’t isolate an individual; you need to treat them in family and in community. That’s how humans act and interact. Even redwood trees relate to each other”…Continue readingFederal funds boost Native American health services in San Francisco

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Los Angeles County is home to the largest urban American Indian population — Urban American Indians Rewrite Relocation’s Legacy

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Source: https://www.npr.org/2012/01/07/143800287/urban-american-indians-rewrite-relocations-legacy JANUARY 7, 20129:06 AM ET By Gloria Hillard On the edge of downtown Los Angeles, Rae Marie Martinez looks for familiar landmarks. The 60-something grandmother turns in a slow…Continue readingLos Angeles County is home to the largest urban American Indian population — Urban American Indians Rewrite Relocation’s Legacy

Communal Healing One Heart

How Japanese American Incarceration Was Entangled With Indigenous Dispossession

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Source: https://www.pbssocal.org/news-community/how-japanese-american-incarceration-was-entangled-with-indigenous-dispossession By Hana Maruyama August 18, 2022 Growing up, every elder I met seemed to have stories of collecting arrowheads — regardless of which camp they were sent to. I…Continue readingHow Japanese American Incarceration Was Entangled With Indigenous Dispossession

Communal Healing One Health, One Heart

Traditional and Conventional Healthcare Unite at New Healing Center for Tribal Members in Southwest Oregon

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Source: https://nativenewsonline.net/health/new-health-center-will-consolidate-care-offer-traditional-healing-for-tribal-members-in-southwest-oregon BY KAILI BERG  FEBRUARY 07, 2024 The Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw (CTCLUSI) is opening a new healthcare center offering traditional and modern care for Tribal members in…Continue readingTraditional and Conventional Healthcare Unite at New Healing Center for Tribal Members in Southwest Oregon

Communal Healing Housing Justice

Supportive Housing Sustains Native American Culture and Addresses Homelessness in Seattle, Washington

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Source: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr-edge-inpractice-041922.html In Seattle, Native Americans account for only 1 percent of the population but 15 percent of the total population of those experiencing homelessness and 32 percent of the…Continue readingSupportive Housing Sustains Native American Culture and Addresses Homelessness in Seattle, Washington

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California Indian Tribes Denied Resources for Decades as Federal Acknowledgement Lags

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Source: https://www.sfpublicpress.org/california-indian-tribes-denied-resources-for-decades-as-federal-acknowledgement-lags/ 08.11.2022  | by  YESICA PRADO |  This article is adapted from an episode of our podcast “Civic.” Click the audio player below to hear the full story.  In 1978, the U.S.…Continue readingCalifornia Indian Tribes Denied Resources for Decades as Federal Acknowledgement Lags