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This file appears in: “We’re not invisible”: Community Center Supports Urban Indians

Photographed in Franklin Park, 1969, Spokane’s Native community prepares for Smoo-ken-shin Days—a 3-day event sponsored by the American Indian Community Center to promote cultural awareness and raise proceeds for the center.

This file appears in: “We’re not invisible”: Community Center Supports Urban Indians

“We’re not invisible”: Community Center Supports Urban Indians

By Madelyn R. Brown

Frustrated by rising unemployment and the lack of Indigenous recognition, Spokane’s Urban Indian population constructed their own place of cultural and community involvement.