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Antes del mito conquistador: L.A. busca enmendar a sus pueblos originarios

February 18, 2024February 18, 2024admin

Fuente: https://www.latimes.com/espanol/california/articulo/2021-10-13/la-moves-to-make-amends-to-indigenous-people POR JULIA WICKSTAFF WRITER OCT. 13, 2021 10:09 AM PT La ciudad de Los Ángeles fue fundada hace 240 años por un grupo de 44 colonos que habían viajado por…Continue readingAntes del mito conquistador: L.A. busca enmendar a sus pueblos originarios

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How Japanese American Incarceration Was Entangled With Indigenous Dispossession

February 17, 2024February 17, 2024admin

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

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Nowhere to go: How one city built housing for Native Americans

February 16, 2024February 16, 2024admin

Source: https://missoulian.com/news/local/nowhere-to-go-how-one-city-built-housing-for-native-americans/article_9ac562de-f01a-11ed-92cc-7f7c7fbf8647.html David Erickson May 18, 2023 The fact that the building serves Natives is crucial to keeping them from ending up back out in the streets because all the…Continue readingNowhere to go: How one city built housing for Native Americans

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

February 14, 2024February 14, 2024admin

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)

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

February 13, 2024February 13, 2024admin

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

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

February 12, 2024February 12, 2024admin

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

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

February 11, 2024February 12, 2024admin

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

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

February 10, 2024February 12, 2024admin

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

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California Slaughter: The State-Sanctioned Genocide of Native Americans

February 9, 2024February 9, 2024admin

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/2016/08/26/california-native-americans-genocide-490824.html BY ALEXANDER NAZARYAN ON 08/17/16 AT 10:10 AM EDT The tally is relentlessly grim: a whole settlement wiped out in Trinity County “excepting a few children”; an Indian girl raped…Continue readingCalifornia Slaughter: The State-Sanctioned Genocide of Native Americans

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

February 8, 2024February 8, 2024admin

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

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

February 7, 2024February 7, 2024admin

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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American Indian / Alaskan Native Homelessness Increased 75% between 2022-20223, the Largest of ANY Subpopulation in LA County

February 6, 2024February 6, 2024admin

Source: https://lanaic.lacounty.gov/commission/ad-hoc-committees/homelessness/

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

February 5, 2024February 5, 2024admin

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

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Native American Health Center Closer to Bringing New Health Center and Affordable Housing to Oakland

February 2, 2024February 2, 2024admin

Source: https://vitals.sutterhealth.org/native-american-health-center-closer-to-bringing-new-health-center-and-affordable-housing-to-oakland/ Oct 16, 2023 Monique Binkley Smith NAHC Receives Significant Investment from Sutter Health to Support New Space Planned for Dental Care, Social Services, Cultural Events and 76 Affordable…Continue readingNative American Health Center Closer to Bringing New Health Center and Affordable Housing to Oakland

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Indigenous Planning: from Principles to Practice

January 29, 2024January 31, 2024admin

Source: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2017.1380961 in Planning Theory & Practice, 2017Vol. 18, no. 4, 639–666 By Libby Porter Notes on Contributor: Libby Porter is Associate Professor in planning and urban geography, based at…Continue readingIndigenous Planning: from Principles to Practice

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California Indian Tribes Denied Resources for Decades as Federal Acknowledgement Lags

December 21, 2023December 21, 2023admin

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

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Tribal citizens brace for trauma, hope for healing with federal report on boarding schools

December 13, 2023December 13, 2023admin

Five Michigan schools for Native Americans identified in historic Interior Dept. findings BY: LAINA G. STEBBINS – MAY 26, 2022 3:48 AM Source: https://michiganadvance.com/2022/05/26/tribal-citizens-brace-for-trauma-hope-for-healing-with-federal-report-on-boarding-schools/ Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School opening day, June…Continue readingTribal citizens brace for trauma, hope for healing with federal report on boarding schools

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Using “ancient wisdoms and techniques” can lead to carbon-neutral buildings says Yasmeen Lari

November 25, 2023November 25, 2023admin

Source: https://www.dezeen.com/2021/07/01/carbon-neutral-architecture-yasmeen-lari-interview/ Jennifer Hahn | 1 July 2021 Leave a comment A return to traditional materials and construction techniques could help eliminate carbon emissions, says Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari, who has built more than 45,000 homes…Continue readingUsing “ancient wisdoms and techniques” can lead to carbon-neutral buildings says Yasmeen Lari

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California becomes the first state in the U.S. to tackle embodied carbon in its building codes

November 25, 2023November 25, 2023admin

By Daniel Roche • August 8, 2023 Source: https://www.archpaper.com/2023/08/california-becomes-first-state-us-tackle-embodied-carbon-energy-codes The California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) and the Division of the State Architect (DSA) updated California’s building codes last week, putting into effect measures…Continue readingCalifornia becomes the first state in the U.S. to tackle embodied carbon in its building codes

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Housing for Urban Indigenous Peoples, Tribal Residents, and Tribal Nations

November 19, 2023November 19, 2023admin

Source: https://www.nlc.org/article/2022/11/29/housing-for-indigenous-peoples-tribal-nations/ NOVEMBER 29, 2022 by Samantha Steeves for the National League of Cities. *Note: There are many different naming conventions for Native American and Indigenous communities, who are in no…Continue readingHousing for Urban Indigenous Peoples, Tribal Residents, and Tribal Nations

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