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Malibu: Chumash Day Native American Powwow and Intertribal Gathering

April 6, 2024admin

Source: https://malibucity.org/chumashday The City of Malibu will host the 24th Annual Chumash Day Powwow and Intertribal Gathering at Malibu Bluffs Park (24250 Pacific Coast Highway) on Saturday, April 6, 2024 and…Continue readingMalibu: Chumash Day Native American Powwow and Intertribal Gathering

Communal Healing Community Identity

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

April 6, 2024April 6, 2024admin

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

Food Sovereignty

Yakama Nation Seeks Food Sovereignty In New Farming Venture With Weighty History

April 6, 2024April 6, 2024admin

https://nature.berkeley.edu/food-systems-projects/finding-food-sovereignty/…Continue readingYakama Nation Seeks Food Sovereignty In New Farming Venture With Weighty History

Indigenous Urban Planning

Indigenous Planning: from Principles to Practice (Part 1)

April 6, 2024April 7, 2024admin

Libby Portercentre for Urban research, rMiT, Melbourne, australia Planning Theory & PracTice, 2017Vol. 18, no. 4, 639–666https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2017.1380961 Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14649357.2017.1380961?needAccess=true Introduction There is growing momentum in planning research, education and practice…Continue readingIndigenous Planning: from Principles to Practice (Part 1)

Community Identity

Erosion of Native American Culture Subject of Protest and Art

April 4, 2024April 4, 2024admin

November is Native American Heritage Month, and Stephen Zeigler is working toward making it an urban experience. While Zeigler stepped away from being part of Downtown Art Walk, the change in…Continue readingErosion of Native American Culture Subject of Protest and Art

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What is Fractionation?

March 29, 2024March 29, 2024admin

Source: https://www.doi.gov/buybackprogram/fractionation#:~:text=What%20is%20Fractionation%3F,divided%20up%20among%20the%20heirs. What is Fractionation? As a result of the General Allotment Act of 1887, reservation land was divided up and allotted to individual Tribal members. After the death of…Continue readingWhat is Fractionation?

Community Identity The Unseen

Skid Row, Gallery Row and the space in between: cultural revitalisation and its impacts on two Los Angeles neighbourhoods

March 24, 2024March 24, 2024admin

Authors: Brady Collins collins.bradyj@gmail.com and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris sideris@ucla.eduAUTHORS INFO & AFFILIATIONS Publication: Town Planning Review. Research Article: 6 January 2016. Volume 87, Number 4 https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2016.27 Summary As a means for neighbourhood improvement, cultural urban revitalisation seeks to draw business growth and…Continue readingSkid Row, Gallery Row and the space in between: cultural revitalisation and its impacts on two Los Angeles neighbourhoods

Communal Healing

Federal funds boost Native American health services in San Francisco

March 23, 2024March 23, 2024admin

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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Anchor Institutions: Addressing Community Needs

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024admin

How can anchor institutions catalyze change and positively impact the neighborhoods and communities that surround them? by Peter M. Dolkart, Regional Community Development Manager, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Winter 2016…Continue readingAnchor Institutions: Addressing Community Needs

Urban Indian Crisis

Los Angeles: American Indian and Alaska Native Homelessness

March 16, 2024March 16, 2024admin

Source: https://socialinnovation.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Native-American-Homelessness-Briev_V111.pdf This policy brief was developed by: Molly Creighton and Elly Schoen January 20, 2020 Background Los Angeles County has a larger American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) population than any…Continue readingLos Angeles: American Indian and Alaska Native Homelessness