Oregon church gifts land back for Indigenous tiny home village
Chenoa Landry hugs her youngest son, Migizi Norcross, 6, during a prayer vigil held at the former Presbyterian Church of Laurelhurst on October 30. (Photo by Jarrette Werk Underscore News/Report for America)
The nonprofit behind a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) congregation in Portland, Oregon, made the final vote Friday to give land back to the Indigenous-run Future Generations Collaborative to build Barbie’s Village—a tiny home village and early childhood center for unhoused Indigenous families.
“It's a beautiful day for land to be returned to tribal communities,” Anna Allen, Shoshone-Bannock, tribal affairs advisor for Multnomah County said Friday.
Future Generations Collaborative, an Indigenous-led organization that strives to generate healthy and healing Indigenous communities, has served the needs of urban Native people in the Portland area since 2012.
