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The Chicago metropolitan area has a large Indian American population. As of 2023, there were 255,523 Indian Americans (alone or in combination) living in the Chicago area, accounting for more than 2.5% of the total population, making them the largest Asian subgroup in the metropolitan region [1] [2] and the second-largest Indian American population among US metropolitan areas, after the ...
Native American communities face significant educational challenges, such as inadequate school funding, lack of qualified teachers, student achievement gap, underrepresentation in higher education and high dropout rates. [64] [63] [65] Tribally controlled schools receive funding directly from the BIE.
The American Indian Center (AIC) of Chicago is the oldest urban American Indian center in the United States. [1] It provides social services, youth and senior programs, cultural learning, and meeting opportunities for Native American peoples. For many years, it was located Uptown and is now in the Albany Park, Chicago community area. [2] [3]
The population of American Indians and Alaska Native (AIAN) has significantly dropped during the COVID pandemic. The study showed that "for every 100,000 in the population, 737 AIAN people have died for COVID-19 versus 105 whites." Indigenous communities are facing tremendous high COVID-19 infection and mortality rates. [10] [11] [12]
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Gentrification, the process of altering the demographic and socioeconomic composition of a neighborhood usually by decreasing the percentage of low-income minority residents and increasing the percentage higher-income residents, [1] has been an issue between the residents of minority neighborhoods in Chicago who believe the influx of new residents destabilizes their communities, and the ...
Standing Bear (Ponca, ca. 1834–1908), chief who successfully argued in US District Court case establishing the right of habeas corpus for Native Americans; Ralph W. Sturges, American Mohegan tribal chief who helped gain federal recognition for the Mohegan people of Connecticut in 1994.
[6] Although there are issues facing urban Indigenous communities such as intergenerational expressions of violence against women or manifestations of marginalization in the form of substance abuse, urban Indigenous communities are not severed from their histories or cultures but rather finding new ways to revitalize what was lost and stand up ...