Living in L.A. for the last 11 months.

I came here from Tulsa, OK 11 months ago. I wrote an article about why I came then. Here are some thoughts that have come up since then.

Los Angeles, a huge city on the West Coast of the U.S.

I haven’t found too many Indigenous people from the U.S. here, but the ones I have found have been very welcoming and helpful. I met some of them at the East Side Cafe community center in El Sereno.

The huge number of Spanish speaking Indigenous people from south of the border is pushing me to learn more than the basic Spanish I took in college. Anyone know of free or low cost classes?

I have been given permission to speak to Indigenous youth at the East Side Cafe, but have not had a date set yet.

I went to San Diego once but the cost of gasoline is very high, so I have not tried to drive to Tijuana or beyond yet.

I am conscious that I live in a city that has millions of Global Majority people.

A park in Los Angeles

Latinx and Indigenous people here are open to my ideas, as I clearly saw in the East Side Cafe community center.