Detroit’s Teresa Pardo has been an “urban Native American” for her whole life. In the spring of 1965, her Choctaw-Coahuilan family moved to 33rd Street all the way from San Antonio, Texas.
Far from their reservation, Pardo and her family didn’t know if they could receive culturally-relevant healthcare or education.
However, five years after they moved to Detroit, American Indian Services opened, a nonprofit dedicated specifically to providing services to the over 50,000 Native Americans living i