Article: Anthony Tamez-Pochel Is a Native American Defending History—and the Future.
Title: Anthony Tamez-Pochel Is a Native American Defending History—and the Future.
Description: This story is part of The 2020 Project, a Men’s Health special project that explores the lives of 20 different 20-year-old men across America. To learn more about the others.
Date: September 16, 2020
Publication: Men’s Health
Link: https://www.menshealth.com/trending-news/a33979900/anthony-tamez-pochel-chi-nations-youth-council-2020-project/
“IN JANUARY 2013, about 2,000 people, many of them Native American teenagers, staged a protest outside a courthouse in downtown Chicago. In the crowd was 12-year-old Anthony Tamez-Pochel.
Amid flags and signs, drumbeats and chants, Tamez-Pochel began to understand.
He grew up in Albany Park, in northwest Chicago, with his mother and many of his other family members protesting for Native American rights and against unethical search and seizure, the loss of Native land, and job discrimination. Nearly one in four Native Americans now lives in poverty, the U. S. Census Bureau reports, which is higher than the national average, and about one in ten Native American adults admits having substance-abuse issues. Suicide remains the second-leading cause of death for Native youth, two and a half times the national rate.”
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