Native American Creative Placemaking

Housing Assistance Council, 2018

RESOURCE OVERVIEW

In this report for the Housing Assistance Council, Immonen points out that placemaking has been a part of indigenous experience for hundreds and thousands of years. She notes that the integration of the arts into whole community lives and activities that creative placemaking represents aligns with indigenous ways of knowing and sense of belonging. The report illuminates a great need for focused funding for creative placemaking for tribal organizations, and increased sensitivity to specific needs and ways of being of indigenous peoples.

KEY SECTIONS

Conceiving Arts-Based Opportunities

Page 5-15 compiles some examples of Native American creative placemaking projects.

Securing Capital

Page 16-18 offers an extensive list of potential funding sources for Native American creative placemaking projects.