health care Speaker 1:
This land was taken from us. It’s like having a wife that was stolen from me, and you see her with somebody else walking, and she looks and she smiles and she still gives you love whenever you’re out there, and in your heart you feel like she’s still yours. But she was stolen.

Monica YellowOwl:
Historical trauma has really bred a ground for disruption completely of a family system, of a parent role, of what safety looks like. Even has changed what our social norms are. When termination happened and the lands were liquidated, and members were paid out and then no longer considered a federally recognized Native American, so where did we go to lean on services? We went into the community to access health care services now, or housing assistance, or whatever it might be.

Monica YellowOwl:
I feel like our people have so many stories of what life was like during that time. The amount of racism that they went up against, the amount of inequity. There was a belief, I think that ruminated around here that you had everything, and look, you just sold it away. And now you want to depend on our resources and our services and bog our systems down. This could have all been avoided. And what most people don’t understand is that termination wasn’t a choice of the Klamath tribes, that this was a federal policy placed upon them, and so we had a large period of time where our people were hurting, and they were hurting in really harsh ways.

Monica YellowOwl:
In this day and age, we see the fallout of that exact thing. Our adverse childhood experience rates are significantly higher than the state average. We see tribal members come through the doors of our behavioral health clinic. For almost everybody that walks through that door, they have lost a significant amount of family members. They have turned to alcohol and drugs as a way to cope. We do offer both Western and cultural relevant services to them.

Monica YellowOwl:
I think identity is one of the most important areas that we focus on, is getting people to understand that you have a place and a space within this tribe, that there is a responsibility that can give value to your life.

Monica YellowOwl:
Fire, I think, has always been a big part of who we are, whether it was just subsistence and to survive, or that burning spirit that you have inside of yourself, that there is a belief that you always have to be feeding that spirit just like a fire. You always have to keep it burning. As a behavioral health program, we have to think in those terms, in those traditional ways of thinking. We have to know that one, a fire exists, that we’re responsible for continually kindling it.

Monica YellowOwl:
We don’t always want to be seen as the traumatized Indians. We want to be seen as resilient Indians, powerful people connected to our homeland, practicing our traditions and our cultures, separating ourselves apart from just the norm, and being very concrete in who we are as tribal people.

Speaker 1:
Place matters because it affects us every day. How could you not walk and see your love being controlled by somebody else, and it not affect you every day? You restore that relationship, and you restore health.

Speaker 1:
All right. I’m rolling.

Speaker 2:
Rolling.

Speaker 1:
Rolling.

Speaker 2:
Yup.

Speaker 1:
Okay.

Speaker 3:
I’m ready.

Speaker 1:
Okay. Let’s do it.

DJ Simpson:
All right. I live north of Portlandia. IFC doesn’t film where I’m at. If Portland’s neighborhoods were represented by elementary children, I’m the quiet kid in the back, the one you know nothing about while all your attention is drawn to the kid who’s always opening his mouth, but I guess for a good reason. We’re not perfect beings, so I guess that makes us even. You see, I’m just one of the many who lives in the pocket of Portland that is considered not so friendly. I see pieces of priority, but it is often portrayed that minorities see that as a minority, too.

I think it’s silly people shoot at each other over the color red and blue or over revenue. I think I can speak for everyone when I say that we’re all fed up, too. Am I right? With that being said, how do you feel about a officer taking an innocent man’s life? Without forming opinions, I know everybody has their own two cents on someone like Darren Wilson. See, civilians against police? Those might as well be gangs because when you have a weapon, it’s where you choose to aim. Is the aim to protect us or to reject us?

You represent us. We represent you. Each drop of water is significant in the pool. Brother Cornel West says, “Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.” Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public. So tell me, what do you see? Is the love scattered all over, wandering free, or is it stuck inside the house and afraid to leave? Mr. Mayor, you represent the city. Whether the population is 1 million people or 50, I am one of those people. We are some of those people. So I ask, if Portland’s neighborhoods are represented by kids, every neighborhood on the map, do you notice the quiet kid in the back?

Gustavo Gutierrez-Gomez:
My opinion, a vibrant community, it’s all of us, it’s the people in it. I think that’s what creates a community, the sense of belonging, you belong no matter where you came from or where your parents or your grandparents came from, the sense of belonging. And I think you’ll find that in here, in Woodburn. Woodburn is the future. Latino population is the one that’s growing the most, the highest in the United States.

Gustavo Gutierrez-Gomez:
So we’ve already … attained a high level of Latino population in a very short time, and I think a lot of the systems were not ready for it. A lot of people might live under stress, and the stress could be because of the barriers, barriers for language, culture, education. If you cannot communicate your needs, as an individual, I just don’t see how you can be healthy. If we try to help them in some of the needs, they wouldn’t know how to take advantage of the help yet, because they don’t know that we’re listening.

Gustavo Gutierrez-Gomez:
So I thought to myself, we have to build trust, but how? And the radio, so far, has been the key because it’s on their time. They’re using their hands, a lot of these people are labor workers and they can listen to the radio, then they will empathize with some of the things that we bring forward and then they get the information.

Gustavo Gutierrez-Gomez:
I want them to feel connected to their community, I want them to feel welcome and I want them to feel they have a space where they can trust our information and they can be part of the conversation. The job that I have, it’s about telling people, basically, what their rights are and how to enforce those rights, because that is my job, my job is to help to break those barriers.

Gustavo Gutierrez-Gomez:
Basically, having access to everything that everybody else has access to, it will allow you to have a very good quality of life. The only thing you have to do is go and make sure that you have a voice, and that’s for everyone. As far as I know, as long as you live in the community, your voice should be heard.

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Scott Kalama:
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