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What practices do the most marginalized people in our environment choose or resort to, or aspire to, or have applied to them? What practices are used by people in this environment who are ''choosing'' to build/dwell with the most minimal resources or environmental impact (e.g., camping, Burning Man).
[[File:Pacific-NW-tribes-winter dwelling from-Zuker-and-Hogfoss.png|alt=Pacific NW tribes winter dwelling, from Zuker and Hogfoss|none|thumb|863x863px|Pacific NW tribes winter dwelling, from Zuker and Hogfoss]]
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[[File:Klamath-tule-hut.jpg|alt=Klamath tule hut (southern Oregon / Northern California)|none|thumb|416x416px|Klamath tule hut (southern Oregon / Northern California)]]
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==== "Homelessness and indigeneity in Portland" ====
''Indigeneity / Indigenism.''▼
[notes for a presentation at Portland Forum on Alternative Shelter and Villages, June 25 2020].
"To build on [this event's] land acknowledgment from earlier, we might consider that ''the native peoples of this land, like the '''Multnomah''' and '''Clackamas''', lived sustainably for many thousands of years, in ways we might call homelessness.''
They lived
* semi-communally
* with shared facilities
* in somewhat temporary buildings,
* built from stuff they could find around them.
* with techniques many people knew;
* in different places at different times of year - winter house & summer camp(s)
* maybe camping or outside sometimes in warmer seasons.
However, we can guess, usually they weren't 'homeless', or unsheltered, because much of the area's land, you could use if someone else wasn't; nor were you forbidden to build for or shelter yourself,
So, yes, we live in a different time and world, a city of 2.5 million people, but still, we might ask: ''how sensible are our ways of land-use and dwelling, if year after year thousands of us live unsheltered'', or stuck somewhere we hate, or facing eviction and no place to go as soon as a paycheck ends?
You might call it naive or idealistic, but this is how I tend to think of shelter and villages -- as just, the ways we might build and dwell using what's around us, so all of us around here might live at least decently. If I'm on the street, or shut out tonight, or got nothing after this month's lease, I call it, a major step up, a huge relief, and a path to where I want to go.
Now, "what's around us" today might include FEMA money, stimulus payments, ballot measure funds, as well as Western Cedar or straw-bales or unused parking-lots. The key thing is to do what we can, with what we have, for all -- for it to be inconceivable to leave thousands of people out, on the street, neither sheltered nor allowed to shelter themselves.
Alternative shelter and villages, therefore, I see as basically, things we can do to give people a place of their own, to be fully human, and a resident, like any of us. They might be basic, things you can do quickly such as a pre-fab cottage or a shared house or cabins; but these might also be homes or sites you could further develop, or relocate -- to someone's backyard, say, as an affordable accessory dwelling -- and stay living in, if you wanted and the situation worked. Call it the new starter home.
This place, it should be recognized and respected, by city and community, so you know it won't shut down suddenly or disappear, and that your space is your space, your privacy and possessions are yours. You should have clear rights, a voice and a stake and a role in deciding how the place runs; a choice in going there, and choices to move on to from it. You should have health and safety, like anyone else. It should be in a location that's workable, to get to your job or friends or whatever, and it shouldn't be dumped somewhere nobody else wants to live.
It *could* be a place you help make, and shape, and run; and actually something fun and different. It could be a place that isn't only for the desperately poor and pitiable, but maybe also, for the frugal, village-inclined, or minimalist or traveller. It's actually where I want to live, which is another reason I'd like to help build it.
▲----''Indigeneity / Indigenism.''
Grant, Elizabeth, and Kelly Greenop, Albert L. Refiti, Daniel J. Glenn, eds (2018). ''The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture''. Springer, 2018. E-ISBN.
Watson, Julia. LO-TEK: ''Design By Radical Indigenism''. Cologne: Taschen, 2019. ISBN:9783836578189.
''Oregon indigenous dwellings.''
Berg, Laura, ed. ''The First Oregonians.'' 2nd edition, 2007. Portland: Oregon Council for the Humanities''.''
Lewis, David G. (2016). "Houses of the Oregon Tribes." NDNHistory Research, December 31 2016. <nowiki>https://ndnhistoryresearch.com/2016/12/31/houses-of-the-oregon-tribes/</nowiki>.
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