During a time of year that can be hard for many, especially Indigenous people, community members in Portland are organizing alternatives to Thanksgiving and Black Friday.

After a four-year pause, the Native American Youth and Family Center powwow returned to Neerchokikoo.

Land that was for centuries an Indigenous village is now a permanent home for the Native American Youth and Family Center.

During nearly seven years there, Lumley built the Native American Youth and Family Center into an economically powerful organization and more than doubled the affordable housing properties it runs.

The Cully Farmers Market, hosted by the Native American Youth and Family Center, runs every Thursday this summer, highlighting about a dozen Indigenous vendors.

A $3.7M grant to the Native American Youth and Family Center will replace baseball fields with food gardens and cultural sites.

‘It is a day of recognition and mourning of the genocide that has happened against our people. It’s a celebration of our resilience and recognition of the scarcity of our First Foods.’