{"id":7582,"date":"2021-01-13T13:43:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T13:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=149554"},"modified":"2021-01-13T13:43:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T13:43:54","slug":"as-covid-surges-in-l-a-hard-hit-indigenous-communities-fight-to-preserve-life-culture-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/13\/as-covid-surges-in-l-a-hard-hit-indigenous-communities-fight-to-preserve-life-culture-language\/","title":{"rendered":"As COVID Surges in L.A., Hard-Hit Indigenous Communities Fight to Preserve Life, Culture &amp; Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>As Los Angeles County reports record <span class=\"caps\">COVID<\/span>-19 infections, overflowing hospitals and record death tolls, we look at how Indigenous communities there are among the hardest hit in working-class neighborhoods, where many are essential workers. \u201cIndigenous people, we don\u2019t have the privilege to stay home and not go to work,\u201d says Odilia Romero, co-founder and executive director of Indigenous Communities in Leadership, or <span class=\"caps\">CIELO<\/span>, an Indigenous women-led nonprofit organization in Los Angeles. Romero also laments \u201cthe loss of knowledge\u201d that comes with the devastation of <span class=\"caps\">COVID<\/span>-19. \u201cSome of the elders have passed away, and there goes a whole worldview,\u201d she says. <span class=\"caps\">CIELO<\/span> recently published a book documenting the stories of undocumented Indigenous women from Mexico and Guatemala living in Los Angeles in the midst of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/13\/as-covid-surges-in-l-a-hard-hit-indigenous-communities-fight-to-preserve-life-culture-language\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Los Angeles County reports record COVID-19 infections, overflowing hospitals and record death tolls, we look at how Indigenous communities there are among the hardest hit in working-class\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7583,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7582\/revisions\/7583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}