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As I write this, LA is on fire—the multiple wildfires in the Los Angeles basin are only about one-third contained. People are displaced. Emotions flit about like ash coating the region. Uncertainty and fear manifest in numerous ways among the people who call LA home. I am one of those who call LA home. I also call Diné bikéyah, and the Colorado side of the four corners, home. As an urban Indian from the Navajo reservation, I inherited LA as my home from parents who attended a federally run boarding school in Riverside, California, during the height of Indian Relocation (PL 959) and the federal policy of Termination (HCR 108). Both federal policies compounded to dissolve treaty contracts with the US government, dispossess people from their land, and relocate people in major cities via one-way bus tickets arriving at Bureau of Indian Affairs field offices. LA was one of several relocation destinations and remains home to one of the largest and most diverse urban Indian populations in the United States.

February 2025


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