Strong urban Indian communities today are the legacy of survivors who refused to let the colonizers win.
Tribal people from across our lands were sent to boarding schools and forced to relocate to cities, all in the hopes of disconnecting them from family, home and culture. Generations of U.S. politicians worked to slowly “kill the Indian, and save the man.” Instead, they fueled a resistance.
Today more than 70% of Native people live in America’s cities far from our homelands. Here in California...