Teaching Latinos about Native American history

Indigenous communities throughout the world are under pressure from mainstream societies and the western world to assimilate and to abandon their Indigenous Culture. Colonialism has disrupted Indigenous ways of living for over five centuries now. Much of the Indigenous culture still lives, resonates, and continues to be resilient in many places globally. However, Indigenous culture is still susceptible to being displaced into present day modern mainstream culture. Latino people in the United States are also faced with pressure from mainstream society to be more American. This community workshop is an attempt to have an open dialogue with participants about the Indigenous Roots-Indigenismo, founded in the Latino Culture. This project is focused in a small pocket community in Humboldt County California, named Loleta. Most of the participants are from Mexico, or their parents are from Mexico. Furthermore I will examine barriers of how Latino's have been Colonized, and the barriers to embracing our cultural identities. Essentially this community project is aimed at examining ways on how to preserve the Latino culture alive for future generations of Latinos in America. This project advocates the importance of promoting and preserving cultural identity in order to ensure diversity and inclusion in our communities.