North American Indian Center of Boston

The North American Indian Center of Boston, Inc. (NAICOB) is a non-profit organization located in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston, which provides assistance to American Indians, Native Canadians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and other indigenous peoples of North America.

According to its website, the organization's mission is as follows:

to promote greater self-determination, socio-economic self-sufficiency, spiritual enhancement, intercultural understanding and other forms of empowerment for the North American Indian Community and to assist North American Indians in obtaining an improved quality of life by providing health, job training, education, housing, and other related programs and social services.[1]

The NAICOB was organized as the Boston Indian Council (BIC) on October 20, 1970, following meetings in 1969.[2] The center's founders included writer Mildred Noble,[2] Canadian activist Anna Mae Aquash and the artist Philip Young, both of whom were of the Micmac nation.

The organization was reorganized as a non-profit corporation in 1991 and provides services to the Native American population (about 6,000) in and around the greater Boston area. The Center networks with tribal councils in other parts of Massachusetts as well as other East Coast states. Current NAICOB projects include Employment and Training, Family Services, and a Tribal Scholars program.

NAICOB has pioneered the development of services and resources [3] for caregiver grandparents, "skip generation" families where minor children are cared for by their grandparents because of parents' substance abuse, incarceration, death, military deployment, or out-of-area employment.

NAICOB offers classes in computer skills and assists members with employment referral and job searches.

NAICOB is governed by a seven-member, all Indian, Board of Directors who are elected by the membership. NAICOB is located at 105 South Huntington Avenue in Jamaica Plain, MA and is accessible by the MBTA Green line E train and also by MBTA bus service. Membership is free to all American Indians, Alaska Natives, First Nations (Indigenous People of Canada), and Native Hawaiians living in and around the greater Boston area.

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References

  1. ↑ http://www.naicob.org/
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Stickgold, Emma (2008-01-27). "Mildred Noble, 86; writer and Native American activist". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2008-02-15.
  3. ↑ http://naicobfamilyresources.org/

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