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Article: A visit to New York's American Indian Community House
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- The Ojibwe News
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- December 9, 1994
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Mel Rasmussen
Ojibwe News, The
12-09-1994
A visit to New York's American Indian Community House.
Twenty-five years later the American Indian Community House of New York City has endured and survived. The New York City area has approximately 36,000 Native Americans from 134 different tribes represented. Their only center of focus out of some 20 million people is this meeting place.
Native Americans have been moving to major population centers since the 1950s. Most who moved here over the years are survivors of relocation programs or the descendants from such families. Many came to seek work and to improve the quality of their lives.
Their struggles have been many, ranging from surviving in the ...