Members of a new San Diego American Indian Health Center program find new purpose, build generational ties between Native seniors and youth
Months of isolation during the pandemic has inspired Indigenous older adults at the San Diego American Indian Health Center in Bankers Hill to form a group to strengthen the community’s cultural knowledge.
Edmonds displays jewelry in the shape of a thunderbird, representing communication with the Creator, that he received for his work in the community. At age 6, he was removed from his reservation and brought to a boarding school for Indigenous children where he remained — separated from his family — until he graduated at 18. Because he was raised in a boarding school, Edmonds said he was unable to learn tribal traditions and cultural norms from his family.
“We wanted to dance, we wanted to talk our language, we wanted to do all the things that Natives did,” he said. “Eventually, in the early 1960s, we started to come together with what we now call the powwow.” Edmonds, of the Kiowa and Caddo tribes, was taken from his family when he was 6 and sent to a boarding school, where he was assimilated and unable to learn about his own Indigenous culture until much later. That memory helps drive his efforts to share cultural knowledge.
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