Our Mission Statement:
As an ethnic resource center, the AIRC has many goals to try to achieve in order to reach out to further than just the UCSC student community. We hope to be able to incorporate indigenous belief systems and lifestyles into our daily lives to try to create deeper understanding of traditions and to be accepting of emerging indigenous knowledge’s that can help create a great resource for future generations; traditional practices will be put as our focal point for our programs. In our future we see ourselves using different methods, such as scholarship and communal activities, to try to create social awareness and change, not only among the native community but also for the UCSC campus. We hope to adapt decolonizing strategies into our everyday activities in order to help our larger, international native community that continues to fight for their rights. Furthermore, we hope to expand to larger native issues such as sacred sites protection, environmental justice, sustainable communities, and community health and renewal.
In Winter 2011, student interns of the UC Santa Cruz American Indian Resource Center organized a “Green Team,” which aims to, through the use of education and work-shopping, instruct the UCSC community on traditional, sustainable, and Native American Practices. Through programs that focus on environmental education, the Green Team aims to establish a community of forward-thinking, informed Native and non-Native students, regardless of background or history. The Green Team, staying true to the values of the AIRC, strives to help foster a Native community within UCSC and higher education overall. Overall, the Green Team, while affiliated and working as a component of the AIRC, is run entirely by students and functions as a separate entity.
The Green Team, through collaborative work between students, colleges, and members of the Native American communities, aims to offer an accessible, welcoming space focused on further educating the UC Santa Cruz campus on sustainability, environmentally responsible behavior, and the relationship to such ideas to Native American tradition and culture.
In Winter 2011, student interns of the UC Santa Cruz American Indian Resource Center organized a “Green Team,” which aims to, through the use of education and work-shopping, instruct the UCSC community on traditional, sustainable, and Native American Practices. Through programs that focus on environmental education, the Green Team aims to establish a community of forward-thinking, informed Native and non-Native students, regardless of background or history. The Green Team, staying true to the values of the AIRC, strives to help foster a Native community within UCSC and higher education overall. Overall, the Green Team, while affiliated and working as a component of the AIRC, is run entirely by students and functions as a separate entity.
The Green Team, through collaborative work between students, colleges, and members of the Native American communities, aims to offer an accessible, welcoming space focused on further educating the UC Santa Cruz campus on sustainability, environmentally responsible behavior, and the relationship to such ideas to Native American tradition and culture.
AIRC Green Team Documents:
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