Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles

AS COVID SURGES IN L.A., HARD-HIT INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES FIGHT TO PRESERVE LIFE, CULTURE & LANGUAGE https://assets.democracynow.org//watch-icon-52b3526e27a20a Full Show As Los Angeles County reports record COVID-19 infections, overflowing hospitals and record death tolls, we look at how Indigenous communities there are among the hardest hit in working-class neighborhoods, where many are essential workers. Indigenous people, we don’t have the privilege to stay home and not... go to work, says Odilia Romero, co-founder and executive director of Indigenous Communities in Leadership, or CIELO, an Indigenous women-led nonprofit organization in Los Angeles. Romero also laments the loss of knowledge that comes with the devastation of COVID-19. Some of the elders have passed away, and there goes a whole worldview, she says. CIELO recently published a book documenting the stories of undocumented Indigenous women from Mexico and Guatemala living in Los Angeles in the midst of the pandemic. See more

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