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The Unseen Urban Indian Crisis

An Intertribal, Urban Cultural Core for San Francisco (2020)

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Source: https://www.sfexaminer.com/archives/native-american-hub-planned-for-mission-district/article_277438ac-a11d-57d5-80bd-7cea5272d77c.html “[T]o create visibility and create more options for our people is honoring the work that our past generations have already done and creating a home for our further…Continue readingAn Intertribal, Urban Cultural Core for San Francisco (2020)

The Unheard

Op-Ed: Indigenous languages in California are facing extinction. Why I’m helping to save them

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Source: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-07-15/indigenous-language-california-serrano-gabrielino BY MARK ARAUJO-LEVINSON JULY 15, 2022 3:05 AM PT The root of my fascination with Indigenous languages can be traced to a rock band from Finland my brother listened to…Continue readingOp-Ed: Indigenous languages in California are facing extinction. Why I’m helping to save them

Urban Indian Crisis

A Native Community Revitalized a Language. Here’s How a School District Carries It On

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Source: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/a-native-community-revitalized-a-language-heres-how-a-school-district-carries-it-on/2023/06 By Kaylee Domzalski — June 09, 2023 When Native students are exposed to their cultural languages, their sense of well-being improves and they’re more likely to graduate, studies show. Similarly,…Continue readingA Native Community Revitalized a Language. Here’s How a School District Carries It On

Housing Justice Urban Indian Crisis

Urban American Indians and AlaskaNatives ExperiencingHomelessness in California: Strategies for Addressing Housing Insecurities

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Source: https://ipr.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/NAH-Report-_-Tribal-MAT.pdf DECEMBER 2020 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This project was conducted as part of the California Opioid State Targeted Response (STR) programming to conduct a needs assessment of opioid use disorder treatment…Continue readingUrban American Indians and AlaskaNatives ExperiencingHomelessness in California: Strategies for Addressing Housing Insecurities

Housing Justice Urban Indian Crisis

Homeward Bound, where a person is treated “like a human being,” as a culturally specific shelter, it holds American Indian rituals

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Source: https://www.cbs58.com/news/how-one-minnesota-county-has-been-rapidly-housing-the-homeless-since-the-pandemic By: CNN Posted: Oct 16, 2022 4:17 PM CST By Katie Lobosco, CNN Photographs by Sarah Silbiger for CNN (CNN) — On a breezy morning in July, Fabian Jones…Continue readingHomeward Bound, where a person is treated “like a human being,” as a culturally specific shelter, it holds American Indian rituals

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

Urban Indian Crisis

Native Peoples of Los Angeles: We are Still Here — a report on Past, Present, and Ongoing Harms Against Local Tribes

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Source: https://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/lac/1137966_AREPORTONHARMSCountyofLosAngeles.pdf BACKGROUND In July 2021, Supervisors Hilda Solis and Janice Hahn brought forth a motion intended to acknowledge and apologize for the historical mistreatment of California Native Americans by…Continue readingNative Peoples of Los Angeles: We are Still Here — a report on Past, Present, and Ongoing Harms Against Local Tribes